Pennsylvania Prevails on Appeal in Lawsuit Over Voting Records

Pennsylvania election officials on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought by a conservative legal group seeking records related to noncitizens who registered to vote.

Public Interest Legal Foundation failed to show “a nexus among any adverse effect or downstream consequence and a harm it has suffered” from state officials’ refusal to produce records, and therefore lacks standing to sue under the National Voter Registration Act, Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit wrote in the opinion.

The group requested all voter records related to a “glitch” disclosed in 2017 in the state’s Department ...