Appeals Court blocks Trump Administration's request for Michigan voter data

"The law cannot be any clearer– states run elections, the federal government is not entitled to Michigan voters’ personal data, and the president cannot change election law with the stroke of a pen," said Benson in a statement.…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-06-26/benson-scores-court-victory-over-federal-election-order-trump-signals-appeal

 

DOJ plans to share states' sensitive voter data with DHS : NPR

"DOJ's revelation in the Rhode Island hearing seem to confirm what CLC and others have argued in courts across the country – that the federal government's efforts to obtain voter rolls is part of a larger project to supplant the states' constitutional authority to administer elections and maintain voter rolls," Dan Lenz, senior legal counsel for strategic litigation at the Campaign Legal Center, a voting rights group, said in a statement...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5764266/voter-data-trump-doj-dhs 

 

NAACP asks judge to protect against ‘misuse’ of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia’s Fulton County - POLITICO

Georgia residents entrusted the state with their "sensitive personal information" when they registered to vote, and the Jan. 28 seizure of ballots and other election documents from the Fulton County elections hub "breached that guarantee, infringed constitutional protections of privacy, and interfered with the right to vote," the organizations said in a motion filed late Sunday...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/16/naacp-asks-judge-to-protect-against-misuse-of-voter-data-seized-by-fbi-in-georgias-fulton-county-00782976 

 

Federal judge dismisses attempt to obtain Michigan voter data in latest rejection of DOJ

In an opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou, a Trump nominee, said the laws cited by the Justice Department in its complaint, including the Civil Rights Act of 1960, do not require the disclosure of the records it sought...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-02-11/federal-judge-dismisses-attempt-to-obtain-michigan-voter-data-in-latest-rejection-of-doj 

 

DOJ sues for Atlanta-area voting data from 2020 election - POLITICO

DOJ's Civil Rights Division has sought access to several states' voter rolls under the same logic. On Friday, DOJ sued four states — Nevada, Massachusetts, Colorado and Hawaii — for access to their voter databases, including personal information like driver's licenses numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers. In total, DOJ has sued 18 states for their voter data…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-2020-election-georgia-lawsuit-00689593 

 

Trump DOJ EXPOSED in SECRET Voter Data THEFT

The Justice Department is suing six states to obtain private voter data in an effort to fuel Trump’s baseless voter fraud lies. Dina Doll reports on this latest attack on our elections and the right to vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVtLAHmv5Cw

 

Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters

President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims related to 2020 election loss…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/trump-order-voter-identification

 

Trump administration demands state voter data, including partial Social Security numbers | CNN Politics

"Americans should be very concerned" about the agency's moves, said David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research and a former lawyer in the Justice Department's voting rights section. 

 "The DOJ is asking states to take this data, which they are charged under federal and state law with protecting, and hand it over for unclear reasons and with no clear indications of how it will be used," Becker said...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/politics/trump-voter-demands-social-security