Overview
- The complaint, filed Jan. 16, names Elections Commissioner Susan Beals and seeks a court order compelling disclosure of Virginia’s full voter list.
- Prosecutors request full identifying fields, including names, dates of birth, residential addresses, and either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.
- DOJ officials say Virginia is the 24th state sued in a nationwide push to review voter lists under federal election laws.
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon says accurate rolls are essential to ensure only eligible voters cast ballots, while the Brennan Center calls the demands unprecedented and intrusive.
- Other states have faced similar suits after providing redacted data, including Georgia, which says it complied with state law but withheld sensitive identifiers.