The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has launched federal lawsuits against four states, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, for refusing to turn over full, unredacted voter registration lists upon request, according to official DOJ filings and press statements.
This latest filing brings the total number of federal lawsuits against states over voter data to 22 nationwide.
Promises made, promises kept! @CivilRights just sued 4 more jurisdictions—GA, DC, IL, & WI—for failing to hand over their voter rolls. @TheJusticeDept will make elections great again! pic.twitter.com/HVsj6DzuVD
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 18, 2025
The centerpiece of the legal offensive is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who has inexplicably aligned with Democratic state officials and election bureaucrats in resisting federal efforts to access complete voter rolls ahead of the 2026 midterms.
DOJ attorneys filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia after the materials provided by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office were incomplete and failed to include key data fields requested by federal officials, such as voters’ full names, dates of birth, residential addresses, state driver’s license numbers, or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
Raffensperger, however, said his office provided the Justice Department with documentation outlining the state’s voter roll maintenance practices along with the publicly available voter registration data.
“Georgia has the cleanest voter rolls in the country because we verify citizenship through the federal SAVE database, use SSA (Social Security Administration) data to remove dead voters, and share data with other states to identify and remove voters who have moved,” Secretary Raffensperger said in a statement.
“We were more than willing to share our nation-leading list maintenance practices and public voter roll data with the DOJ on December 8 at their request, and we look forward to working together to eliminate the federal barriers that prevent even cleaner voter rolls. Hardworking Georgians can rest easy knowing this data was shared strictly in accordance with state law that protects voters’ privacy.”
According to DOJ, federal law is clear, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) require states to maintain and preserve voter registration lists and make them available for inspection and analysis.
Congress also granted the Attorney General enforcement authority under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to demand such records.
The Justice Department states it is acting to protect election integrity and ensure compliance with long-standing federal statutes.
“The law is clear: states need to give us this information, so we can do our duty to protect American citizens from vote dilution,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
“Today’s 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.”
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