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As the new year approaches, so too do the incredible consequential midterms. Ahead of November, the Trump administration is seeking to protect our election by suing over 20 states that are not complying with federal voter roll verification requirements.
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From the Daily Wire:
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced Monday that the Department of Justice had launched 23 lawsuits against 22 states that have not complied with federal voter roll verification requirements.
In mid-September, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued the states of Oregon and Maine and their respective Secretaries of State for failing to provide information on voter list maintenance procedures and electronic copies of statewide voter registration lists. “States simply cannot pick and choose which federal laws they will comply with, including our voting laws, which ensure that all American citizens have equal access to the ballot in federal elections,” Dhillon said.
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In late September, the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against six more states after the DOJ accused them of failing to comply with federal law by refusing to turn over voter registration records. The states included California, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Assistant Attorney General Dhillon announced the lawsuits on Monday, stating that “American citizens have a right to feel confident in the integrity of our electoral process,” and that the “refusal of certain states to protect their citizens against vote dilution will result in legal consequences.” She also reported that 13 states have voluntarily complied with the Trump administration so far.
Meanwhile, over 20 states are refusing to comply. The Assistant Attorney General announced that California in particular “has two lawsuits.” And speaking of noncompliance, the Daily Wire notes that Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded to the lawsuit by telling the Assistant AG to “jump in the Gulf of Maine.”
With midterms just around the corner, it’s extremely important that America has elections its citizens can trust. Let’s pray for the Department of Justice as it works to keep our voter rolls clean!
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(Excerpt from the Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Harmeet Dhillon, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106612080)
