DOJ widens push for unredacted voter rolls with five-state suit blitz

The Justice Department has sued Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey to obtain unredacted, centralized voter registration databases, expanding a campaign that now spans 30 jurisdictions. The lawsuits hinge on the Civil Rights Act of 1960 and the National Voter Registration Act/Help America Vote Act to compel data sharing, despite concerns over privacy and states’ rights. Courts have previously dismissed several similar suits, and the DOJ has appealed those rulings while pledging to press forward, a move that could set a nationwide precedent for federal access to state voter rolls.