{"id":174974,"date":"2026-04-24T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:36:08","slug":"pennsylvanias-voter-data-online-sharing-ban-stands-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s Voter Data Online Sharing Ban Stands, Judge Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative-backed group that publishes voter data online lost its bid to strike down Pennsylvania\u2019s internet sharing ban.<\/p>\n<p>Voter Reference Foundation LLC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/VoterReferenceFoundLLCvSchmidtNo124CV2942026BL146270MDPaApr232026?doc_id=X1Q12EK80000N\" title=\"opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed to convince<\/a> the judge, Joseph F. Saporito Jr. of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, that the state\u2019s ban is preempted by the federal National Voter Registration Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the Internet Sharing Ban does not in any way prevent any party from accessing and publicly inspecting the full voter data to which they are entitled under the NVRA; it only prevents the full voter export list from being published on the Internet,\u201d Saporito, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A conservative-backed group that publishes voter data online lost its bid to strike down Pennsylvania\u2019s internet sharing ban.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20377,28,30,29,73411,78424],"class_list":{"0":"post-174974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-exports","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-political-speech","13":"tag-preemption"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}