{"id":357519,"date":"2025-12-19T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357519\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:17:10","slug":"office-of-public-affairs-justice-department-sues-four-states-for-failure-to-produce-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357519\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Sues Four States for Failure to Produce Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Today, the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against four jurisdictions \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1421476\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">District of Columbia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1421351\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Georgia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1421481\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Illinois<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1421486\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wisconsin<\/a> \u2014 for failure to produce their full voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department\u2019s nationwide total to 22. In addition, three states \u2014 Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee \u2014 today announced to the Justice Department their intent to voluntarily provide their full registration lists, pursuant to the Department&#8217;s request. This brings the number of states that are either in full compliance or in the process of compliance to 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u201cThe law is clear: states need to give us this information, so we can do our duty to protect American citizens from vote dilution,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cToday\u2019s filings show that regardless of which party is in charge of a particular state, the Department of Justice will firmly stand on the side of election integrity and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">According to the lawsuits, the Attorney General is uniquely charged by Congress with the enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which were designed by Congress to ensure that states have proper and effective voter registration and voter list maintenance programs. The Attorney General also has the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) at her disposal to demand the production, inspection, and analysis of the statewide voter registration lists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against four jurisdictions \u2014 District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-357519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}