Overview
- Democratic secretaries from 10 states sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asking whether federal officials misled them about voter data uses, setting a Dec. 1 response deadline.
- The letter follows meetings where DHS official Heather Honey said the department had not requested or received voter data, even as DHS later acknowledged working with DOJ to check rolls for noncitizens.
- DHS subsequently posted an update expanding use of its SAVE system to check voter lists, a tool election officials say was not designed for election management and can produce errors.
- DOJ sought voter rolls from at least 40 states, in some cases requesting sensitive fields such as partial Social Security numbers and birth dates, prompting privacy and legal concerns from state officials.
- Colorado provided only public voter list fields and withheld sensitive data, while several states refused broader requests and at least six have been sued by the federal government.