Officials ask at least 43 states for sensitive details as critics fear effort to sow doubt about midterm election results
Alarm as Trump DoJ pushes for voter information on millions of Americans
Officials ask at least 43 states for sensitive details as critics fear effort to sow doubt about midterm election results Sam Levine in New York Thu 15 Jan 2026 07.00 EST
The justice department is undertaking an unprecedented effort to collect sensitive voter information about tens of millions of Americans, a push that relies on thin legal reasoning and which could be aimed at sowing doubt about the midterm election results this year.
The department has asked at least 43 states for their comprehensive information on voters, including the last four digits of their social security numbers, full dates of birth and addresses, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Eight states have voluntarily turned over the information, according to the Brennan Center, and the department has sued 23 states and the District of Columbia for the information.
Many of the states have faced lawsuits after refusing to turn over the information, citing state privacy laws. Some of the states have provided the justice department with voter lists that have sensitive personal information redacted, only to find themselves sued by the department. Nearly every state the justice department has sued is led by Democratic election officials.
I am a registered Republican. I have never voted for a Republican in a general election in my life. You don’t have to vote for the party you are registered with.
Please keep voting in the primaries.
The main reason I registered Republican was to cast my vote for moderate candidates in the primaries. Sadly, those are becoming harder to find since 9/11.
One could look at that as more suspicious in the context of why they may be trying to collect this data. This is the guy that wanted Georgia to “find more votes” and a registered Republican voting for a Democrat sounds like one of those things that is “obviously a mistake” as you surely intended to vote R.A registered Democrat voting for a Democratic candidate would be largely assumed, but if all your votes are going to another party, this may be the so far undiscovered “evidence” of the Dems stealing votes or doing fraudulent mail in or drop off ballots.I don’t disagree with what you do, I just think it would stand out more if I were to be looking for statistical anomalies.There is no way to tell who voted for who. That’s not how the voter systems work.
You are correct. I just reeducated myself. They just have a record if you voted or not. Apologies.