DOJ attempting to inspect and remove unqualified voters in swing states
The Department of Justice has scrutinized how battlefield states manage voter roles and focuses on eliminating unqualified voters.
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The Justice Department is suing six states for not providing all the voter registration information it requested. This is an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to inspect voter roles that have made voting rights advocates and election managers Bristle as well.
The division announced six separate lawsuits on September 25th against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New York and Pennsylvania (all democratically driven or swing states).
“The clean voter roll is the foundation for free and fair elections,” Attorney General Pamela Bondy said in a news release. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible and secure. In states that do not fulfill that obligation, this Department of Justice will be seen in court.”
Civil proceedings filed in federal district courts in each state alleges that the state violates federal civil rights laws and national voter registration laws. The lawsuit asks the court to declare that the state is in violation of the law and force the state to add the requested voter registration list.
The department often requires copies of voter roles with private information, such as partial Social Security numbers from dozens of states. The effort argued that the previous administration did not do enough to keep non-citizens away from voter roles, saying it would protect voters by making voters accurate.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued a statement on September 25th. The department said it was “trying to take over the private personal information of more than 8 million state residents, including people’s driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information.
“Other secretaries in both Democrats and Republican states also asked these questions,” Benson said. “They refuse to give us a straight answer. We have given the Department of Justice exactly the legal qualification, a public version of Michigan’s voter files.”
