Showing posts with label voter rolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter rolls. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

DHS concedes noncitizen voter numbers it touted are inflated : NPR

"The real threat is that eligible voters—your friends, family, and neighbors—are recklessly and mistakenly removed from the voter rolls as a result of the administration's fishing expedition for purported non-citizens," the statement reads. The state said DHS has not provided a response to its questions about the allegations...

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5940807/noncitizen-voters-trump-nevada-call 


 

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Appeals court denies Trump administration request to reconsider Michigan voter rolls case

The Trump administration has said it needs that information to ensure that Michigan — and other states where it's seeking access to similar files — is following federal election law. Michigan officials argued the federal government is unconstitutionally intruding into elections that are legally under the supervision of state and local governments, and that its actions will "intimidate and spread fear among voters."…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-08-14/appeals-court-denies-trump-administration-request-to-reconsider-michigan-voter-rolls-case


 

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Claims of noncitizens on voter rolls leave states baffled : NPR

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin answers questions from reporters on July 17 after remarks about his agency alleging that more than 250,000 non-U.S. citizens are on the voter rolls in just four states. Those states dispute that tally.

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5906708/trump-claim-noncitizens-midterms-election-interference-voter-rolls


 

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states

But Talwani, in siding with a coalition of 23 states and ​the District of Columbia that was led ‌by California, Massachusetts, Nevada and ​Washington state, said the president lacked ​any authority to direct DHS to compile voter eligibility lists for each state to use and that USPS had no statutory authorization to adopt any binding regulations on mail-in voting. 

The judge, who was appointed by Barack Obama, said Trump also could not attempt through his order “to intimidate local election officials to use the necessarily incomplete confirmed citizenship lists as a resource, lest they face criminal prosecution”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/court-rejects-trump-mail-in-voting


 

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Trump administration loses appeal over access to personal information of Michigan voters

Michigan can keep a lid on the personal information of registered voters. That is the ruling from a federal appeals court. It is the latest defeat for the Trump administration, which has been trying to get key details from dozens of states. The court says the release of birth dates, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers is not covered by a federal law cited by the U.S. Justice Department...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-06-24/trump-administration-loses-appeal-over-access-to-personal-information-of-michigan-voters


 

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin from requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship to vote

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1iePfOh14

Monday, May 4, 2026

‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters

“This doesn’t have anything to do with non-citizens, because non-citizens don’t vote. Every study shows that,” he said. “So what you have here is an unprecedented invasion into the privacy of Americans, sold under a false narrative of illegal voting.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/arizona-state-secretary-trump-elections


 

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking personal details about Rhode Island voters | PBS News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding detailed voter data from Rhode Island, a decision that follows similar rulings in a handful of other states. 

 U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy sided with Rhode Island's top election officials and civil rights advocates, writing that federal law does not permit the U.S. Department of Justice "to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-seeking-personal-details-about-rhode-island-voters


Saturday, March 28, 2026

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 


 

Saturday, February 7, 2026

State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results - POLITICO

"The things that have been said publicly, frankly, are quite appalling," Henderson said to White House Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Jared Borg as several of her colleagues and reporters looked on, referencing comments from the Department of Justice attacking states for not complying with its request for voter rolls across the country, a move that has confused — and frustrated — many state election officials. 

 The DOJ "pretty much slandered all of us to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and that the federal government has to do it for us. Not OK," Henderson said during a question-and-answer session...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/trump-state-election-officials-midterms-federal-power-00768050 


 

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data - POLITICO

Two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to "overturn election results in certain states," and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245 


 








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