DOJ reverses stance on Kentucky voter rolls, drawing scrutiny of its own suit

The Department of Justice has shifted its stance on Kentucky’s voter-roll maintenance, moving from a bid to obtain unredacted registration data under NVRA/HAVA to supporting Kentucky in a related suit and asserting the state’s list-maintenance is compliant. The reversal, paired with prior consent decree outcomes and past DOJ positions in other voter-roll cases, has sparked criticism that the agency is inconsistently using voter-roll data to pursue broader political goals and undermines its own litigation.