Overview

• Federal lawsuits target California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania for declining to provide full statewide voter-registration lists.
• The complaints, filed Sept. 25 in each state’s federal district court, invoke the NVRA, HAVA and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to compel production and inspection.
• Justice Department requests include voters’ full names, dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers for active and inactive registrants.
• State officials say privacy laws bar releasing unique identifiers, question how the data would be secured or used, and in several cases offered only the public, redacted voter file.
• The actions extend a broader campaign that recently added suits against Oregon and Maine, follow requests to at least 26 states, and come as Reuters reported DOJ discussions about sharing voter data with Homeland Security Investigations.