The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed lawsuits against six states for their failure to provide voter registration rolls.
The states, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, have failed to produce their voter rolls upon request, prompting federal action.
“Clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that obligation will see this Department of Justice in court.”
“States are required to safeguard American elections by complying with our federal elections laws,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “Clean voter rolls protect American citizens from voting fraud and abuse, and restore their confidence that their states’ elections are conducted properly, with integrity, and in compliance with the law.”
The action expands upon similar lawsuits against Oregon and Maine. A lawsuit was also filed against Orange County Registrar of Voters Robert Page after he refused to provide records regarding the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls.
The legal actions come as part of the DOJ’s crackdown on voter registrations in an effort to uphold federal law. The Trump DOJ pledged to ensure that each state has clean voter rolls and will challenge efforts that aim to suppress election integrity. “We are attacking illegal race-based gerrymandering, and we are protecting ballot access for all Americans,” Dhillon said in August.
