Public Interest Legal Foundation president J. Christian Adams said in a recent interview that his group is doing a “deep dive into the personnel” of a blue state elections office.

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J. Christian Adams, a leading advocate for restrictive voting rules, said in a recent interview that his group is doing a “deep dive into the personnel” of a blue state elections office. Also in this week’s Eye On The Right: Potential coordination between election deniers True the Vote and DOGE over voter rolls is under scrutiny, Kari Lake shares a deranged new voting conspiracy, and more.

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PILF head claims the right-wing organization is “doing a deep dive” into blue state’s election offices

- Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) president J. Christian Adams said in a recent interview that his group is doing a “deep dive into the personnel” of a blue state elections office.

- Adams suggested a forthcoming report will reveal evidence of partisan Democrats working to run elections. We assume the partisan Republicans staffing the election office in North Carolina ([link removed] ) and other states will get less scrutiny.

- Remember, there’s been a sharp rise ([link removed] ) in threats and harassment of election workers and staff in recent years. And a lot of that is due to rhetoric fomented ([link removed] ) by Trump and his allies on the right.

Did True the Vote team up with Musk’s DOGE to analyze voter rolls? Dems, watchdogs want to know

- A recent federal court filing revealed ([link removed] ) that, back in March, DOGE team members engaged with a “political advocacy group” to discuss using Social Security data to audit voter rolls in an effort to challenge election results.

- The group’s name was never disclosed, but Democracy Docket unearthed ([link removed] ) several examples of the election denial group True the Vote publicly calling on DOGE to audit voter rolls it said it had obtained. “We’ve received word that this message is being carried forward,” the group’s leader said.

- House Democrats launched ([link removed] ) legislative efforts and outside watchdogs filed public records requests last week to uncover the full scope of the coordination.

- “For nearly a year, my Democratic colleagues and I have been calling for action to protect Americans’ privacy from Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ minions,” Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Social Security Subcommittee, said. “We found out from a court filing that ‘DOGE’ staffers traded confidential data on a private server and even schemed to hand over Social Security numbers to a MAGA group trying to undermine elections.”

Kari Lake’s newest conspiracy theory: The Mexican government is perpetuating mass voter fraud

- In a completely unhinged video ([link removed] ) shared on social media, Arizona’s favorite failed candidate, U.S. Agency for Global Media senior advisor Kari Lake, is spreading a new conspiracy theory that the Mexican government is responsible for mass voter fraud in the U.S.

- “The Mexican government has built a sophisticated political machine inside our country that pushes migrants to resist assimilation, lobbies our politicians to put Mexico’s agenda first, floods 1 million Spanish-language, Marxist-inspired textbooks into our children’s classrooms,” the video says. “Now, for the first time ever, the best-selling investigative journalist of our time, Peter Schweizer, blows the lid off of Mexico’s election machine inside America.”

- The video is an ad for Schweizer’s new book, which claims to expose how more than 50 Mexican consulates in America are “staging an invisible coup” through mass voter fraud. I can’t exactly say how they’re doing this because I haven’t read the book yet. But given Schweizer’s history of inaccuracies ([link removed] ) , I wouldn’t take him at his word.

Vote centers have made it easier to vote. Cleta Mitchell is coming for them

- As an election year kicks off, Cleta Mitchell and her Election Integrity Network are hoping to change the dynamic of the 2026 midterms by pressuring ([link removed] ) state and local election officials to only allow voting to take place in small neighborhood precincts on Election Day, rather than vote centers — large locations where anyone in a county can cast a ballot.

- A push toward precinct voting for the midterms is a growing trend among the anti-voting right, with key figures like Lake and Overstock.com CEO and election conspiracy theorist Patrick Byrne voicing their desire in recent months to see voting return to a single-day affair on Election Day at small precincts.

- The battle over vote centers is currently playing out in Lake’s home state of Arizona, where Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last year vetoed a GOP bill to abolish the use of them, as well as eliminate the state’s nearly month-long early in-person voting period. The bill was authored by state Rep. Rachel Keshel (R), the wife of prominent anti-voting activist Seth Keshel.

- “The use of vote centers is a proven election reform that simultaneously benefits voters and election officials by removing the risk of showing up at the wrong polling location in your county,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) recently said in a video endorsing a new bill to expand vote centers statewide. “This change has boosted voter participation and reduced the number of provisional ballots.”

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