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Over the years Judicial Watch performed a valuable service to America in part by bringing lawsuits against states over their failure to keep correct voter registration lists. The lawsuits and other legal actions have been filed under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). As a result, nearly 6 million ineligible registrations were removed from the voter rolls in 8 cities and states.

These are the principles Judicial Watch runs under. Only eligible American citizens should be allowed to vote in US elections. It supports state efforts to require the use of voter ID and opposes efforts to weaken or abolish traditional honest-election safeguards. It employs the NVRA to compel states to follow federal law by keeping voter rolls free of ineligible voters. The Act also allows private groups like Judicial Watch to review voter registration lists for poor maintenance and voter fraud.

What follows are opponents of the Judicial Watch support for the NVRA.

DEMOCRACY DOCKET / FREE ELECTION FUND. This group was founded in 2020 by Democrat attorney Marc Elias. It pursues lawfare to block and dismantle election integrity measures. Elias has a long history of legal activism and has worked on the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Working for the Clinton campaign, Elias hired Christopher Steele’s firm, Fusion GPS, to produce the infamous dossier known as the “Russia hoax.” The Elias Law Group received over $300,000 from two of George Soros’s IRS 527 organizations with the intent of influencing political outcomes.

THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER (CLC). CLC was founded in 2002 by Trevor Potter, former Federal Elections Commission Chairman. CLC leads in the fight against election integrity initiatives. In a 2025 lawsuit the CLC challenged President Trump’s Executive Order 14248 requiring proof of citizenship to vote. It also sued the state of Louisiana over SB 436 requiring proof of citizenship for voters in the state. Some of the money the CLC received was over $1 million from Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2016 and more than $2.5 million from convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried since 2021. Trevor Potter is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises which itself received $1.4 million from the Open Society Foundations.

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON (CREW). As a left-wing advocacy group, CREW has litigated efforts to expand mail-in voting including the acceptance of ballots received after election day. Beyond that CREW routinely engages in lawfare to block every aspect of President Trump’s fraud prevention agenda. CREW received significant funding from the Open Society Foundations. Other donors include a consortium including George Soros, Tom Steyer (environmental activist and billionaire), and the Service Employees International Union.

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU). The ACLU plays a key role in the attempt to dismantle Trump’s election integrity efforts. They have filed more than 100 lawsuits against the administration to date. Here are some of the cases: 1) suing the state of North Carolina over congressional redistricting, 2) seeking to force Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots without proper dates, 3) asking the courts to compel the state of Mississippi to create additional majority-black Congressional districts, 4) filing a legal challenge to New Hampshire’s HB 1569, which required proof of citizenship to register to vote. The ACLU receives extensive funding from the Open Society Foundations including a $15 million grant in 2022 and the dark money network administered by Arabella Advisors.

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (LDF). The NAACP LDF has filed many lawsuits challenging election integrity efforts. Here are a few: 1) suing Texas and Missouri over their redistricting plans, 2) challenging DOJ efforts to obtain voter registration data from states, 3) challenging Florida’s SB 90, which sought to protect voting by mail from fraud, 4) challenging Trump’s Executive Order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Jonathan Soros, son of George Soros, is a member of the Board of Directors of the LDF. LDF has received $16 million from Open Society Foundations and $2.25 million from the Jennifer and John Soros Foundation.

BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE. The William J. Brennan Center for Justice is an independent nonprofit organization working at New York University School of Law. It actively challenges election integrity efforts. Examples include: 1) suing to prevent Michigan, Arizona, and other states from cleaning their voter registration rolls, 2) challenging Texas’ Election Integrity Protection Act (SB 1) which mandates identification requirements to vote by mail, 3) suing to restore voting rights to convicted felons in Mississippi and other states. The Brennan Center received $400.000 in funding from the Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society since 2019. It also received $1 million from the Election Trust Initiative (Pew Charitable Trusts).

If headway seems slow in election reform and the correction of voter fraud, consider the organizations listed above as prime culprits for the delay. These are a few of the organizations, in effect, working against free and fair elections. Take note of them for future reference.

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).