Elections and Voting

The Justice Department has expanded litigation seeking complete, unredacted voter registration lists — including driver’s license numbers and portions of Social Security numbers — to 18 states by adding Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada, and separately sued Georgia’s Fulton County for 2020 ballots and related records, saying it will run records through DHS’s SAVE citizenship tool to audit compliance; all states targeted were ones President Trump lost in 2020. DOJ officials, including Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, defended the demands as enforcement of federal election laws, but state officials such as Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold have vowed to fight the suits as unlawful and a privacy risk, and House leaders have opened a separate oversight inquiry into Maryland’s handling of a reportedly noncitizen registration tied to Ian Andre Roberts.