{"id":394353,"date":"2026-01-08T03:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:14:28","slug":"office-of-public-affairs-justice-department-sues-arizona-and-connecticut-for-failure-to-produce-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394353\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Sues Arizona and Connecticut for Failure to Produce Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced that it has filed federal lawsuits against the States of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1422516\/dl?inline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1422521\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Connecticut<\/a> for failure to produce their full voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department\u2019s nationwide total to 23 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Department of Justice has now sued 23 states for failing to provide voter roll data and will continue filing lawsuits to protect American elections,\u201d said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. \u201cAccurate voter rolls are the foundation of election integrity, and any state that fails to meet this basic obligation of transparency can expect to see us in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccurate voter rolls are essential to ensuring that American citizens\u2019 votes count only once, and only with other eligible voters,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cThe Justice Department is committed to safeguarding fair and free elections, and will hold states accountable when they refuse to respect our federal elections laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division announced that it has filed federal lawsuits against the States of&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-394353","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\/394353","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=394353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394353\/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=394353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}