Duplicate Registrations
- Oct 29
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Duplicate Registrations on NC Voter Registration List
• PILF To North Carolina: Your Rolls Need Cleaning Published On: August 04th, 2025
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today sent a formal letter to the North Carolina State Board of Elections detailing serious concerns about the accuracy of the state’s voter registration data. The letter follows the Board’s announcement of its “Registration Repair” initiative and identifies tens of thousands of questionable records that could be handled under that program.
The Foundation’s review uncovered:
29,414 potential interstate duplicate registrations, including:
17,817 with Florida
6,247 with New York
4,383 with California
12,700+ same-address duplicates, often due to name typos, hyphenation issues, or missing Social Security data.
230 inter-county duplicates, indicating problems within North Carolina’s own voter registration system.
613 registrants with placeholder or fake birthdates.
“These findings suggest North Carolina’s voter rolls are plagued by the same types of errors we’ve documented in other states,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams. “We applaud the State Board’s ‘Registration Repair’ initiative, but the real test will be whether this data leads to meaningful cleanup.” https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-to-north-carolina-your-rolls-need-cleaning/
• Examples of Duplicate Registrations in NC from Several Queries – expanding the types of queries potentially
uncovers more duplicates
*Note: All registration data below unless otherwise indicated excludes registrations in Denied and Removed Status 10/2025
1,128 Duplicate Registrations (Same First Name, Last Name, Birth Year, Residential Address)
420 Duplicate Registrations (Same First Name, Last Name or Phone Number, Birth Year, Residential Address, Middle Initial)
642 Duplicate Registrations with reversed first and last names
96 Duplicate Pre-Registrations (New voters)
NCEIT.org North Carolina Election Integrity Team
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