Key Facts

• The DoJ has sued 30 states and Washington D.C. for not fully sharing voter registration data as of April 1.
• States like California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Arizona, and Michigan have already legally blocked the DoJ’s requests.
• Republican-led states Utah, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, and Idaho have also refused to provide the voter data.
• These states argue that election management is their constitutional right and worry about privacy and data security.
• The requested data includes sensitive information such as driver’s license numbers and part of social security numbers.
• The DoJ plans to share the data with the Department of Homeland Security to check citizenship using an error-prone database called SaveA.
• The push for this data follows President Trump’s claims of election fraud, although these claims have been disproved.
• Voting rights groups have sued the administration, saying the data requests could lead to removing legitimate voters before the 2026 election.