The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a lawsuit against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada over what it said was a failure to produce voting registration data when it was requested.
In a news release, the department said it has brought 18 such lawsuits in total against different states and one locality, specifically targeting Fulton County, Georgia, over the county’s 2020 election records.
The attorney general’s office “has the Civil Rights Act of 1960 at her disposal to demand the production, inspection, and analysis of the statewide voter registration lists,” Friday’s news release said.
“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement on Friday. “At this Department of Justice, we will not permit states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections laws. If states will not fulfill their duty to protect the integrity of the ballot, we will.”…
DOJ Files Lawsuits Against 4 More States Over Voter Data
