JUST IN: Trump DOJ To Inspect Voter Rolls In Over a Dozen Swing States | JP
Election integrity is one of the most critical issues of our time.
And, the Department of Justice is undertaking a sweeping effort to secure it.
The DOJ, underneath President Trump’s leadership, is now set to inspect voter roll information in multiple states.
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BREAKING: Trump DOJ to inspect voter roll information in multiple swing states.
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Over a dozen states are included on the list, including several battleground states.
BREAKING: The DOJ to inspect voter roll information in multiple swing states
Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin…
All have received letters… pic.twitter.com/NURKuOJFeq
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Reportedly, the DOJ is requesting very specific information about voter rolls in letters penned to these states.
The effort is being led by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.
Department of Justice:🚨
“The DOJ asked for copies of statewide voter registration list with both active and inactive voters. Inactive voters generally have not voted in recent elections and are put on the inactive list to preserve their registration while queuing them for… pic.twitter.com/4vCAIrvaNR
— Shiloh Marx (@Shilohmarx) July 29, 2025
Department of Justice:
“The DOJ asked for copies of statewide voter registration list with both active and inactive voters. Inactive voters generally have not voted in recent elections and are put on the inactive list to preserve their registration while queuing them for future removal.”
The inactive voters are coming to the light The voter rolls are being cleaned
Incredible work. Harmeet and her office are securing elections. Thank you
That has many state election officials shaking in their boots…
SpotlightPA reported:
The U.S. Department of Justice has unnerved some state election officials by issuing sweeping requests for information that it says is pertinent to enforcing federal election laws and investigating voting crimes, which President Donald Trump has identified as priorities.
In letters sent to at least a dozen states over the past two months, according to documents obtained by Votebeat and reported elsewhere, the department asked for varied sets of data and records, including voter rolls, information on potential election and voting crimes, data from past elections, and details about procedures for maintaining voter lists and checking voters’ eligibility.
State officials say privately that they have been struck by the scope of the requests and uncertainty around what the administration plans to do with the information, and have been talking to one another about them. Many of these officials have faced years of near-constant scrutiny as Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of election malfeasance, and the president has tried to use his influence and official authority to rewrite the history of his 2020 election loss.
While the requests so far are mostly for data or procedures that are public information or accessible by law to the Justice Department, election law experts said, some of them were more questionable.
Bryan Sells, a voting rights lawyer who worked at the Justice Department during the Obama administration, said federal law has long given the department the right to access some state data related to voter registrations, and it’s not uncommon or improper for it to use that power.
“But I think the question I had after reading these emails is whether what they’re really looking for goes beyond what Congress allowed for,” he said.
For example, the Justice Department sent Michigan and Arizona officials emails asking for information on “individuals who have registered to vote or have voted in your state despite being ineligible to vote.” That request arguably falls within the department’s purview, Sells said. But a request for information on people “who may otherwise have engaged in unlawful conduct relevant to the election process” is broad and might not be.
Right now, the DOJ is especially concerned with securing election integrity for key swing states.
USA Today has more:
The effort is so far focused on battleground states. It follows President Donald Trump‘s widely challenged executive order in March that sought to create new requirements to register to vote and backed a range of voting policies long supported by Republicans.
In nearly identical letters to state election officials in Minnesota, Nevada and Pennsylvania, the DOJ asked them to describe how they identify people who are felons, dead, nonresidents, or noncitizens, and how they remove them from their voter lists.
A letter to Arizona officials said the state should require people who have driver’s license numbers to register to vote using that number instead of the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. The DOJ said the office should conduct a review of its voter file.
The department also sued Orange County, California, for not providing enough identifying information in response to a records request, and filed documents in support of lawsuits brought by the right-leaning group Judicial Watch that say Illinois and Oregon have not been removing enough people from their voter rolls.
“It is critical to remove ineligible voters from the registration rolls so that elections are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement that a spokesperson provided to USA TODAY. She said the department would “vigorously enforce” federal law that requires states to “conduct a robust program of list maintenance.”
Several of the states in question have competitive elections in November 2026, when all seats in the House and one-third of the seats in the Senate are on the ballot. Minnesota has a race for an open Senate seat. Arizona and Pennsylvania have multiple competitive House races, and there will be a tight race for a House seat in California that includes part of Orange County.
This is a great start…
Keep it up!