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Updated on: August 6, 2026 / 9:22 AM EDT
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Washington — President Trump's administration has mounted efforts in nearly all 50 states to obtain their complete voter rolls containing sensitive information about registered voters in their states.The Justice Department has argued that the information is needed to ensure states are complying with two federal voting laws, the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act, which aim to ensure states have programs in place for maintaining accurate voter rolls.The administration sent letters to most of the states last year seeking unredacted electronic copies of their statewide voter registration lists, which include voters' birth dates, addresses, partial Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers.A number of states have turned over publicly available versions of their voter rolls, but have declined to provide their complete lists. In response, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against 30 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to force them to hand over the voter data.So far, the Trump administration has lost 20 of those cases. Federal judges have rejected the Justice Department's lawsuits for unredacted voter rolls from: ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutIllinoisKentuckyMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandVirginiaWest VirginiaWisconsinA federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's initial case against Georgia because it was filed in the wrong court, and government lawyers have since refiled it. The Justice Department voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Oklahoma after the state agreed to turn over its voter registration list.The other cases remain pending. Those are in Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Washington, D.C.
