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HARRISBURG – Litigation brought by an Indianapolis advocacy group which charged the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with violating the National Voter Registration Act in allegedly failing to maintain and update its rolls by removing deceased voters, has been settled.
Public Interest Legal Foundation of Indianapolis, Ind. first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 15 versus now-former Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar, of Harrisburg.
“The Foundation has spent many thousands of dollars reviewing Pennsylvania’s election procedures and documented failures to maintain an accurate and correct voter roll as required by the NVRA. The Foundation’s investigation of the rolls, both then and now, has forced it to incur substantial costs to compare the Commonwealth’s voter rolls to the Social Security Death Index, various commercial databases, and other sources in order to identi