Apr 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Executive Order 14248, titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” introduces several measures aimed at enhancing the security and integrity of federal elections in the United States. Below is a summary of each section, along...
Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mar 5, 2025, Ponte Vedra beach, FL — Voter Reference Foundation added voter registration data from Indiana to its public, searchable database at VoteRef.com. The database now covers 33 states and the District of Columbia. Indiana joins Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas,...
Oct 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
October 10, 2024 The Voter Reference Foundation has filed a complaint against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts seeking compliance with the National Voter Rights Act (NVRA) provision allowing public inspection of the voter rolls. VRF has previously...
May 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Voter Reference Foundation joins election integrity partners in urging Congress to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The SAVE Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require proof of citizenship to vote in federal...
May 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Voter Reference Foundation joins election integrity groups to encourage Mississippi lawmakers to prohibit ranked-choice voting, protecting voters from an overly complicated and confusing system of voting that often prevents the candidate receiving the most votes...
Apr 12, 2024 | Uncategorized, Voter Data 101
One of the common issues we find when requesting and analyzing voter rolls is the availability of the removed records. These are categorized and named differently across the states, they can be referred to as cancelled, deleted, purged, removed, or off to name a few,...
Mar 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Nevada’s new Voter Registration and Election Management System (VREMS) that has been in development since early 2023 has had some trouble during testing for a mock election last week. The issues experienced by the counties caused the Nevada Secretary of State to push...
Mar 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
In all the data you expect to find in a voter file, location information is inarguably one of the most important. In the election sphere this information is usually referred to as jurisdiction or district data. This group of information includes voting districts like...
Feb 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Original Article Here: Voter Reference Foundation opposes push in Virginia legislature to re-enroll in ERIC voter monitoring system | Old Dominion News Voter Reference Foundation opposes push in Virginia legislature to re-enroll in ERIC voter monitoring system By Old...
Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Downers Grove, IL – Voter Reference Foundation, has relaunched their Absentee Ballot Tracker, a tool used to track the status of ballots that have been mailed to voters. VoterReferenceFoundation.com will provide the public with the...
Jan 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jan. 24, 2024, Downers Grove, IL — Voter Reference Foundation added 54 new voter registration data files to its public, searchable database at VoteRef.com. Voter Reference Foundation has been working overtime to provide increased transparency to the election...
Jan 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Original article: Will Illegal Aliens Choose the 2024 Republican Nominee in Arizona? – The American Conservative Story by Hayden Ludwig – Jan 17, 2024 Will Illegal Aliens Choose the 2024 Republican Nominee in Arizona? Arizona Democrats are exploiting a...
Nov 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Voter Reference Foundation joins a coalition of grassroots and public policy organizations in a letter to Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu expressing opposition to Senate Bill 528 and Assembly Bill 563. If adopted,...
Sep 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
The voter data available on voteref now shows all the information about Iowa voters who cast a ballot in the 2022 election. You are able to check where the voter was registered for the election as well as the method of voting they used. The voteref Iowa data is very...
Sep 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Original Link: Cuccinelli & Swoboda Praise Ohio General Assembly, Secretary of State LaRose for Advancing Historic DATA Act—Still Pending House Approval – Election Transparency Initiative FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2023 New law, already funded by...
Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today is national Poll Worker Recruitment Day! Serving as a Poll Worker is a great way for citizens to directly engage in the elections process. Sign up to be a poll worker today and you can do your part to ensure that elections are free, fair, and...
Jul 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Early voting in Ohio sprints ahead of 2022 Early voting in Ohio began on July 11, 2023, and has already surpassed the total numbers from the 2022 August Primary election last year. Statistics provided by the Ohio Secretary of state shows 155,183 ballots have been...
Jul 11, 2023 | Featured, Uncategorized
The GOP’s Blueprint for Fair and Secure Elections | Restoration of America THE GOP’S BLUEPRINT FOR FAIR AND SECURE ELECTIONS BY HAYDEN LUDWIG | JUL 11, 2023 | ELECTION INTEGRITY The ACE Act aims to fight the Left’s disintegration of our elections, while improving...
Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
DATA ACT INCREASES OHIO TRANSPARENCY SCORE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2023 DOWNERS GROVE, IL – The Voter Reference Foundation (VRF) announced that Ohio’s election transparency score has increased as it celebrates the passage of the Data Act. Ohio’s...
May 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
To reside or not reside: Overseas citizens sudden desire to participate in US elections while living abroad The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act set up the requirements and guidelines to participate in federal and state elections for both military...
May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
VoteRef.com adds Wyoming to Voter Transparency Database May 9, 2023, Downers Grove, IL — Voter Reference Foundation (VRF) added voter registration data from Wyoming to its public, searchable database at VoteRef.com. The Cowboy State joins Alabama,...
Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Apr 5, 2023 by Editor VoteRef.com adds Tennessee to Voter Transparency Database April 5, 2023, Downers Grove, IL — Voter Reference Foundation added voter registration data from Tennessee to its public, searchable database at VoteRef.com. The Volunteer...
Apr 4, 2023 | Featured, Uncategorized
ERIC says it helps maintain voter rolls. The data shows otherwise. Hayden Ludwig The “progressive” media take it as an article of faith that the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is the essential ingredient for immaculate voter rolls. Without ERIC...
Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
VRF UNVEILS ELECTION TRANSPARENCY SCORECARDS Release: March 30, 2023 DOWNERS GROVE, IL – The Voter Reference Foundation (VRF) is releasing new, proprietary ratings of each state’s public election data transparency. The goal is to give voters a quick...
Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, is a 501(c)3 organization comprised of 26 member states and the District of Columbia. In concept, ERIC is a convenient way for states to compare their data to ensure voter registration maintenance is done in...
Mar 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last week the Utah legislature passed a bill to give themselves more access to voter registration information while leaving the public behind in the dark. But to really understand the bill, a history of Utah’s complicated relationship with transparency is necessary....
Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Check out Hayden Ludwig’s article in The American Conservative highlighting information from the Voter Reference Foundation’s Data Transparency research....
Oct 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
OCTOBER 7, 2022 — DOWNERS GROVE, IL – The Voter Reference Foundation absentee ballot tracker tool now includes data from 9 states as the midterm elections near. The absentee ballot tracker allows the public to see data including ballots requested and returned,...
Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
From The Federalist: …Combined with the altering of state election laws through unconstitutional means, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the 2020 contest have resulted in many voters feeling uneasy about the security of America’s elections. In spite of such...
Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sept. 2, 2022, Downers Grove, IL — Voter Reference Foundation added voter registration data from South Carolina to its public, searchable database at VoteRef.com. The database now covers 31 states and the District of Columbia, and represents 62.5 percent of the...
Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
The AZ version of HR1, the ‘Free & Fair Elections’ initiative has failed to make the ballot after a flurry of activity in AZ Superior and State Supreme Court. Election Integrity advocates, citizens of Arizona and court watchers on both sides were hanging by the...
Aug 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Maricopa County Republican Chairman has reported that one of two ballot dropboxes in the county was not properly surveilled during the primary. When footage from the dropbox was requested, Maricopa County acknowledged that due to an error the video was...
Aug 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
VRF is dedicated to transparency in our elections process. Voter rolls are where the elections process begins, when one registers to vote, and where it ends, when a vote credit is entered into the voter registration record for a voter who has cast a ballot. It is...
Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
UPDATE 08/22/2022: The AZ version of the Federalized take-over of elections, HR1, is on the verge of missing the signature cutoff to make the ballot. AZ Free Enterprise has successfully disqualified almost 100,000 signatures, leaving the initiative an estimated 15k...
Jul 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In a resounding victory for election integrity in WI, the State Supreme Court has ruled that unmanned dropboxes are unlawful and that the guidance issued by the Wisconsin Elections Commission in 2021 permitting their use was invalid. From the ruling: …We hold the...
Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Gina Swoboda, Executive Director, VRF: “In today’s ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the right of state legislatures to intervene in litigation to protect the election integrity measures duly enacted in their state. The people of NC voted yes on a referendum to...
Jun 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, is a 501(c)3 organization comprised of 31 member states and the District of Columbia. In concept, ERIC is a convenient way for states to compare their data to ensure voter registration maintenance is done in an...
Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
May 31, 2022-Downers Grove, IL- Voter Reference Foundation added voter registration data from Missouri, Rhode Island and Washington to its searchable database at VoteRef.com. Missouri, Rhode Island and Washington join Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,...
May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
To date in the North Carolina primary, Republican ballot requests by Independents are surging to levels that far outpace those seen in 2020 and 2018. This represents a HUGE shift in the party ballots as a % of total ballots between 2020 and 2022, with 63.25% of...
Apr 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Voter Reference Foundation today added 2020 voter registration data from West Virginia into the searchable database at VoteRef.com.West Virginia joins Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New...
Apr 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
DOWNERS GROVE, IL — The Voter Reference Foundation (VRF) — which is breaking new ground in America providing transparency and accountability to voter rolls by allowing the public to see them — is adding the ability to track absentee ballots in...
Apr 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Voter Reference Foundation today added 2020 voter registration and election data from District of Columbia into the searchable database at VoteRef.com.The District of Columbia will join Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,...
Apr 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Voter Reference Foundation today added 2020 election data from Oklahoma into the searchable database at VoteRef.com.As the 20th state to be added to VoteRef.com, Oklahoma will join Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,...
Apr 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has responded to VRF’s request for the total number of voters who cast a ballot in the 11/3/2020 General Election and who had registered as Indefinitely Confined and not provided ID prior to the 11/3/2020 General Election. The report...
Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
VRF NM Complaint01Download DOWNERS GROVE, IL — The groundbreaking Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), which has ushered in a new era of American election transparency at VoteRef.com, today filed a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court against top Democrat...
Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is attempting to take control of elections away from the counties and place power into the hands of the Executive branch and specifically, the Secretary of State’s Office. Senate Bill 22-153 contains numerous provisions that...
Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
The following is a response by Voter Reference Foundation to the ProPublica story today on us. The leftwing activists at ProPublica epically indicted themselves with their cartoonishly headlined smear piece on us. Four months ago, two things began simultaneously:...
Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Voter Reference Foundation has added the land of the sky blue waters to its VoteRef.com website. With the addition of Minnesota, VRF has 16 states available on its public, searchable site. “Minnesota represents a significant addition to our website and we’re excited...
Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Voter Reference Foundation has added the state of Florida to its database. Estimated to be the 3rd largest state in the country by population, Florida is the largest state added to VoteRef.com to date. With this addition, one third of the voting population of the...
Feb 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
What if you could go online, anytime, and find out exactly who is eligible to vote in the next election? A new person registers, the name appears. A person dies or moves, the name is removed. All in real time. We are accustomed to such transparency in many walks of...
Oct 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Voter registration data is manually entered by poll workers, county recorder and county clerk staff, and temporary workers hired during busy election seasons. In the process of data entry, typos are made that can lead to voter registration records presenting...