US EditionJustice Department says it’s suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states
- The Justice Department sued Oregon and Maine on Tuesday after their secretaries of state refused to provide requested voter registration data.
- The lawsuits follow repeated DOJ requests for unredacted electronic voter lists and maintenance procedures under the National Voter Registration Act and related laws.
- Both states' officials, including Oregon's Tobias Read and Maine's Shenna Bellows, argued the DOJ lacks authority and cited privacy concerns, while the DOJ claims violations of federal election laws.
- Bellows highlighted that Maine conducts some of the nation’s most reliable elections and described the DOJ’s inquiry as an excessive move aimed at the state, while Read expressed readiness to challenge in court any attempt by the President to leverage the DOJ against his political adversaries.
- The DOJ lawsuits signal heightened federal efforts to enforce voter data access, raising questions about federal-state election authority and privacy amid claims of unsubstantiated illegal voting by undocumented immigrants.
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DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon Over Voter Registration Lists
The Department of Justice (DOJ ) said on Sept. 16 that it is suing Oregon and Maine for failing to provide information on how their election offices maintain valid voter registration rolls. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement that both states had declined to cooperate with the department’s requests for unredacted access to voter rolls and maintenance procedures, despite having allegedly given a private organization access to “ide…
Justice Department sues Maine's secretary of state over access to voter information
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has rejected two demands from the DOJ to share complete copies of Maine's computerized voter registration rolls. The department's lawsuit, filed Tuesday, represents an escalation of the national tug-of-war between the Trump administration and states over voter data.
Justice Department files lawsuit against Maine and Oregon over voter lists
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had sued the states of Maine and Oregon for failing to relinquish voter registration lists. The DOJ claimed both states violated federal law by not complying with requests to turn over…
Trump’s Justice Department says it sued Maine for not turning over voter data
People cast their ballots at the Besse Building in Albion, Maine on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/ Maine Morning Star)The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it sued Maine and Oregon for declining to turn over personal voter information. “Maine has some of the best elections in the nation,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement. “It is absurd that the Department of Justice is targeti…
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