(The Center Square) — Maine is required to release its voter lists to a conservative group that’s conducting audits of recent elections to probe for fraud following a new federal court ruling.
A U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in Boston sided with lawyers for the Virginia-based Public Interest Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit, who argued that federal law allows data to be available for public inspection.
The three-judge panel cited a provision of the National Voter Registration Act requiring public disclosure of “all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.”
“Such a provision evinces Congress’s belief that public inspection, and thus public release, of voter file data is necessary to accomplish the objectives behind the NVRA,” they wrote in the 40-page ruling.Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who oversees the state’s election […]
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