Public Interest Legal Foundation

Public Interest Legal Foundation
AbbreviationPILF
Formation2012; 12 years ago (2012)
TypeResearch[1]
Headquarters107 S. West Street, Suite 700, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314
Location
Coordinates39°46′02″N 86°09′33″W / 39.7673497°N 86.1591224°W / 39.7673497; -86.1591224
President
J. Christian Adams
Chairman
Cleta Mitchell
Affiliations501(c)(3)
Revenue (2017)
$2.2 million[1]
Websitepublicinterestlegal.org

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is an American conservative legal group based in Alexandria, Virginia,[2] which is known for suing states and local governments to purge voters from election rolls.[3] The nonprofit was constituted in 2012.

PILF asserts that "large numbers of ineligible aliens are registering to vote and casting ballots", although lists that they have displayed of such supposed voters prove to actually include American natives who are eligible voters.[4] PILF said its lists had been based on state government lists of declared "non-citizens" removed from local voter rolls, but some U.S. citizens were wrongfully purged in the process.[5] The group has made false claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States,[3][6][4] and the organization has published the information of eligible voters online, including Social Security numbers, falsely accusing them of being fraudulent voters.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Public Interest Legal Foundation Inc". ProPublica. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Contact Information page". PILF. 16 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Pilkington, Ed (23 September 2018). "Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Dinan, Stephen (June 18, 2017). "Maureen Erickson kicked off Virginia voting rolls as 'declared noncitizen'". The Washington Times. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference politifact was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Timm, Jane C. (August 27, 2017). "Vote fraud crusader J. Christian Adams sparks outrage". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-25.