Overview
- The Justice Department filed lawsuits on Dec. 2 against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington over failure to provide statewide voter rolls.
- Officials cite the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to compel production for review of list maintenance and accuracy.
- The requested records include voters’ dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.
- Rhode Island’s Gregg Amore and Washington’s Steve Hobbs declined to release sensitive identifiers, citing voter privacy and a lack of clarity on how the data would be used.
- DOJ says it will keep pursuing cases after requesting data from at least 40 states, while Rhode Island faces a 21‑day response deadline and the ACLU of Rhode Island warns of privacy risks.