US EditionPennsylvania rejects DOJ request for voter rolls with personal data
Pennsylvania's Secretary of State refused DOJ's request for sensitive voter data, citing state laws protecting 8.8 million voters' personal information from disclosure.
- On Thursday, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt rebuffed the U.S. Department of Justice, refusing to provide voter data with partial Social Security and driver's license numbers and offering a redacted file purchasable for $20 due to state privacy laws protecting 8.8 million voters.
- The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent two formal requests for Pennsylvania's November 2022 through November 2024 voter records and followed up last week for unredacted rolls including personal identifiers.
- Schmidt responded that `This request...represent a concerning attempt to expand the federal government’s role` and said the DOJ misused the national comparison statistic 12.7%.
- Earlier this month the ACLU of Pennsylvania threatened legal action if the state provided voter information to the federal government, while at least 19 other states received similar requests and the Committee of Seventy called these DOJ actions federal overreach.
- In recent months the Department of Justice has sought unredacted voter rolls from at least 15 states, fitting a Trump administration effort on noncitizen voting that may erode trust ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Pennsylvania Blocks DOJ Bid for Voter Data
Pennsylvania’s top election official has rejected a request from the Trump administration to hand over sensitive voter information, setting up a clash between state privacy laws and the federal government’s effort to scrutinize voter rolls, The Hill reported. Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt to lead the state’s election efforts in 2023. This week, he rebuffed a Department of Justice deman…
Pennsylvania rejects 'concerning attempt' by DOJ to access voter rolls
(WHTM) -- Pennsylvania will not hand over its statewide voter registration list, including personal information such as driver's license and Social Security numbers, after the Department of Justice requested it earlier this month. An Aug. 4 letter sent by the DOJ to Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt asked for the state's electronic voter roll, as well as information on its answers to a survey about election administration. The department …
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