Overview
- Filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, the complaint alleges Jena Griswold violated the Civil Rights Act by withholding records and seeks production within five days of a court order.
- Federal lawyers demand full voter names, dates of birth, residential addresses, and either driver’s license numbers, last‑four Social Security digits, or HAVA unique identifiers.
- Griswold says she has provided public data but will not release sensitive identifiers, and Attorney General Phil Weiser says the state will fight the lawsuit.
- The DOJ cites a 1962 civil-rights precedent and invokes the National Voter Registration Act and Help America Vote Act to claim inspection powers.
- The case was assigned to Chief Judge Philip Brimmer and is part of a broader DOJ push targeting more than a dozen states, including six new suits announced Dec. 2.