The Trump administration is using all its legal levers to obtain complete voter rolls, pressing ahead with dozens of lawsuits and investigations in multiple states. Although some of the lawsuits have been dismissed, criminal proceedings have yielded results.
The Department of Justice (DOJ), through its criminal and civil rights divisions, has been reaching out to states since May to request voter rolls with complete personal information, mainly driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers. About a dozen states have provided the data voluntarily.
