‘Worse Than Conspiracy’: How Bureaucratic Incompetence Destroys Election Integrity

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to explain how election integrity is systemically undermined by "dirty voter rolls" and bureaucratic inefficacy.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:23.8	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:28.6	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:31.5	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
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0:46.1	Our guest today is Jay Christian Adams, president and legal counsel of the Public Interest Legal
0:52.7	Foundation, much to talk about in the world of election
0:55.8	integrity. Thank you so much for being here today with us on this edition of the Federalist
1:01.4	Radio Hour. Thanks for having me. You bet from Alaska to Maine, state voter rolls are riddled
1:09.8	with errors.
1:16.6	Battleground Pennsylvania appears to have thousands of shady voter registrations on its roles, according to a review by Election Integrity Watchdog, the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
1:24.6	And we know that Pennsylvania is not alone. Take us through some pretty
1:29.6	extensive reviews that you folks have done on the voter rolls in several states now.
1:37.1	Yeah, we've been looking at voter rolls, particularly in states having elections this year,
1:43.0	like Pennsylvania, and looking for errors.
1:46.7	And boy, are they easy to find, or at least it seems so, all sorts of problems.
1:52.7	People registered in multiple states.
1:55.5	People registered multiple times within Pennsylvania.
2:00.1	Maine has got problems that are very similar, but all over the
2:04.5	tri-state area, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, you have duplication of registrations,
2:10.3	people who are getting registered in both of these states and multiple states, people who are
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