"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."
"Experts and state officials around the country have raised concerns over the legality of the Justice Department's effort to obtain states' voter rolls and whether it could compromise voter privacy protections. The Justice Department has said it is entitled to the data under federal law, and withholding it interferes with its ability to exercise oversight and enforce federal election laws."
Texas transmitted its complete voter registration database to the U.S. Justice Department on Dec. 23, a dataset covering roughly 18.4 million registered voters and including dates of birth, driver's license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The Justice Department requested voter rolls and other election-related data from all 50 states beginning last fall, stating the effort supports its federal enforcement duties to ensure states regularly maintain voter lists and remove ineligible voters. State officials and privacy experts have raised legal and confidentiality concerns about sharing detailed identifying information, while the Justice Department asserts federal entitlement to the data.
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