US EditionVoting rights activists sue over DOJ state voter list requests
The groups say the Justice Department has collected data from more than a dozen states and could wrongly flag eligible voters for removal.
- On Tuesday, voting rights activists sued the Trump administration to block the Department of Justice from collecting state voter lists, arguing the federal government lacks constitutional authority to manage state elections.
- Since last year, the DOJ has demanded unredacted voter rolls including driver's license numbers and Social Security numbers, prompting critics to allege the agency is building a "sprawling new voter surveillance and purging apparatus" without congressional authorization.
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon claimed the department reviewed 60 million voter records and identified 350,000 deceased persons and 25,000 people lacking citizenship proof; the lawsuit contends these verification methods are "flawed," risking "false positives."
- Naturalized citizen Nel's registration was canceled after a federal system flagged him as ineligible and he missed a 30-day deadline to provide proof of citizenship; the DOJ is fighting in federal court across 30 states for similar voter data.
- Judges in five states have dismissed similar DOJ demands for failing to justify the requests, even as Trump has urged Congress to approve legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register for voting.
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Voting rights group sues DOJ over national voter database
Voting rights advocates on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in an attempt to block the government from collecting and centralizing voter registration data. Tuesday’s complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, names voting advocacy group Common Cause and four individual voters under the care of the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) as plaintiffs…
The Toronto Star
Groups sue Alaska election officials, allege the sharing of voter data with DOJ was unconstitutional
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Harmeet Dhillon Found 350000 Dead Voters on the Rolls and 29 States Refuse to Let Her See the Rest
Democrats spent years calling you a conspiracy theorist for worrying about voter fraud. Trump's DOJ just ran 60 million voter records and discovered something Democrats did not want found. And Harmeet Dhillon just revealed why 29 states are fighting desperately to hide their voter rolls. Dead Voters Do Not Vote Themselves The DOJ has already […]
The Epoch Times
Voting Rights Groups Sue to Stop DOJ From Collecting State Voter Lists
Voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on April 21 seeking to block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from collecting, compiling, and analyzing state voter registration lists. As of April 1, the DOJ has sued 30 states, including Washington, for failing to turn over voter rolls. The department has said the U.S. attorney general has congressional authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to seek election records from states to check for improper vo…
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