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Trump’s DOJ Offers States Confidential Deal to Remove Voters Flagged by Feds
The DOJ's draft memorandum would require states to remove ineligible voters within 45 days and involves over a dozen states, with some refusing to sign amid privacy and federal control concerns.
- The Justice Department sent a confidential memorandum of understanding to more than a dozen states requiring election officials to remove alleged ineligible voters, expanding federal election oversight.
- The Justice Department says it needs detailed voter data to ensure only citizens vote and has demanded rolls since this summer, suing 21 states and the District of Columbia for unredacted copies.
- The memorandum outlines that DOJ would receive unredacted voter rolls, test and notify states of issues, require states to clean rolls within 45 days, and permit sharing data with 'a contractor' and Department of Homeland Security's SAVE program.
- A Justice Department official named 11 states interested—Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia—while Colorado and Wisconsin rejected the MOU, and only four states shared unredacted lists as of early December.
- Privacy advocates warn the unredacted lists include driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers, while experts say the plan departs from the decentralized U.S. election system and risks federal overreach.
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Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
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