DOJ Sues Six States to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls

Overview

• The new suits target California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania after months of requests for full voter registration files.
• Justice Department filings invoke HAVA and the NVRA to claim a legal right to sensitive identifiers as part of federal oversight of voter list maintenance.
• Several states offered public, redacted exports instead, arguing state statutes and constitutional provisions limit sharing of protected personal data.
• Homeland Security confirmed receiving voter data from DOJ, intensifying concern over cross‑agency use that state officials say was not disclosed.
• At least one state, Indiana, has provided sensitive fields, while critics and civil rights groups cast the push as politically driven and unnecessary given rare instances of noncitizen voting.