The Justice Department has asked states for their voter rolls with an eye toward purging ineligible voters. Democrats say sharing the data could violate federal election law.

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.

The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant identifying information on every registered voter in each state — and other election-related data. The Justice Department has said the effort is central to its mission of enforcing election law requiring states to regularly maintain voter lists by searching for and removing ineligible voters.

Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, told Votebeat and The Texas Tribune that the state had sent its voter roll, which includes information on the approximately 18.4 million voters registered in Texas, to the Justice Department on Dec. 23.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Even better. Undo the laws that allow US tech companies to sue them if they take a look inside US tech systems. Some country can make an alternative app store, eat Apple’s lunch and make it 90% cheaper and still pocket like 30B. They could even sell their dongles to US customers so they can circumvent and download the foreign appstore and there is nothing the US companies could do about it. All they need to do is change their own laws to allow for this. The US has already ripped up the trade agreements and aid that were the impetus for those laws in the first place so there is absolutely no reason to keep them on their books.