"The Department of Justice - the nation's largest law office, nominally the guardian of the rule of law - filed a notice of supplemental authority in its New Hampshire voter roll case. Except the exhibit attached to that filing had nothing to do with New Hampshire. Instead of the document it intended to attach, DOJ filed an unrelated January letter about Minnesota's same-day voter registration system, a document from its Minnesota voter roll case, a completely separate lawsuit filed against a completely different state. Hours later, DOJ quietly acknowledged the error and filed a "notice of errata." Whoops."
"This is the kind of mistake that a first-year associate would be sweating through the night over. Except this isn't a stressed-out junior associate at a Biglaw firm. This is the Department of Justice of the United States of America, currently suing 30 states simultaneously in a sprawling campaign to seize unredacted voter rolls containing voters' Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and birthdates. And they can't keep their own cases straight."
"Democracy Docket has documented dozens of errors in the department's voter roll campaign alone, including asking the wrong state officials for election records, leaving draft comments in official court filings, and countless misspellings and grammatical errors. The agency spent months emailing the wrong address in Oklahoma to demand voter rolls, and sent demand letters to the wrong state officials in Rhode Island and Wisconsin. And just last month, the Civil Rights Division filed a 14-page motion with a giant "DRAFT" watermark plastered diagonally across every single page. You truly cannot make this up."
The Department of Justice filed a notice of supplemental authority in a New Hampshire voter-roll case with an exhibit that did not relate to New Hampshire. The attached material instead included an unrelated January letter about Minnesota’s same-day voter registration system, documents from a Minnesota voter-roll case, and references to a separate lawsuit against a different state. Hours later, the Department of Justice acknowledged the mistake and filed a notice of errata. The error is presented as part of a broader pattern of mistakes in a campaign involving multiple states and efforts to obtain unredacted voter rolls containing sensitive personal information. Reported issues include requesting records from wrong officials, leaving draft comments in filings, misspellings and grammatical errors, and sending emails or demand letters to incorrect addresses or officials.
Read at Above the Law
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