Voter Fraud Alarmist Group Blames Election Officials For Its Own Misleading Report
By Tierney Sneed
August 30, 2018 10:20 am
A group headed by an ex-Trump voter fraud commissioner that was sued over misleading reports it produced claiming to show mass non-citizen voter registration is taking its legal defense to a whole new level.
In new court filings, the group is blaming state election officials for any inaccuracies in the reports, and is seeking to drag them into the litigation and saddle them with any liability for the group’s reports.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, whose president, J. Christian Adams, is also a defendant in the lawsuit, asked a court to make the Virginia Department of Elections a third-party defendant in the lawsuit.
PILF and Adams were sued by a handful of people named in their reports — Alien Invasion in Virginia and Alien Invasion II — who claim they were defamed by being identified in the reports as non-citizens who were removed from Virginia’s rolls as part of what PILF claims was a pattern of “Felonies upon Felonies.” The Richmond chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizen is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, which alleges voter intimidation as well.
The individuals are all citizens, and the lawsuit alleges that PILF, in mischaracterizing voter roll data it obtained from local elections officials, made false and reckless accusations about those named in the reports. PILF had sought lists of people whose voter registrations were canceled on the basis of questions about their citizenship, but in many cases those cancellations were clerical errors, or reversed once the voter affirmed he or she was in fact a citizen.
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