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Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Scripps News writes that the U.S. Department of Justice requests are signaling that the DOJ is shifting its traditional concern of protecting citizens' access to the ballot box to focusing on fraud and noncitizen voting, both of which are rare but have been the subject of years of false claims from Trump and his allies.

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The DOJ has sent letters to over a dozen states demanding access to sensitive voter information, including voter registration rolls. Last week, the latest targets of the department's radical hunt for voter fraud were Maryland and Michigan. This time, it's Maine.

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-- Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) Aug 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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... Over the past three months, the department's voting section has requested copies of voter registration lists from state election administrators in at least 15 states, according to an Associated Press tally. Of those, nine are Democrats, five are Republicans and one is a bipartisan commission.

In Colorado, the department demanded "all records" relating to the 2024 election and any records the state retained from the 2020 election. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-04 12:31 AM | Reply

In my state (CT) the public records show party affiliation.

Is this effort part of Pres Trump's effort to deal with who he calls, "the enemy from within" that is, Democrats?


Drip, drip, drip, drip ....


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-04 12:34 AM | Reply

And the requests have pretty much been met with --. So?

#3 | Posted by et_al at 2025-08-04 12:56 AM | Reply

@#3 ... So? ...

Let's see what happens next.

Will funds be withheld unless the states comply?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-04 01:13 AM | Reply

Department of "Justice"

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-05 09:38 AM | Reply

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