DOJ Voting List Lawsuits Extend to GOP-Led and Trump States
The Trump administration has filed two dozen lawsuits to ensure states are complying with voter list maintenance laws, including against Republican-led states and states Trump won in the 2024 election.
The Trump administration’s Justice Department has sued 23 states and the District of Columbia, alleging they did not provide voter registration data to ensure compliance with federal law.
The lawsuits included four states with Republican governors–two of which also have a Republican secretary of state running elections, Georgia and New Hampshire.
Also, in 2024, President Donald Trump won five of the states his Justice Department is now suing: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
Georgia contends it provided the necessary voter information to the Justice Department on Dec. 8, but redacted sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers to ensure it did not fall into the wrong hands.
“Georgia is the gold standard in voter list maintenance at the state level,” said the letter to the Justice Department from Charlene McGowan, General Counsel for the Georgia Secretary of State.
McGowan’s letter said that in 2025, Georgia........
