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Secretaries of state from Arizona, Colorado, and Maine condemned Bondi’s attempt to extort the Minnesota tragedy for voter roll access.
This week brought a stunning revelation about the Trump administration co-ordinating with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
Minnesota election officials denied a new Justice Department demand targeting the state’s same-day voter registration and vouching system, rejecting what they describe as an unlawful federal attempt to intrude on sensitive voter information and state authority over elections.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — both Democrats — marking a striking escalation in an already volatile standoff between the state and federal government.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a new front in its ongoing campaign for voter data held by states Friday, demanding Minnesota turn over records related to same-day registrations.
The top election officials in 10 states are banding together to push back against the Trump administration’s demands for voter registration records, sending a joint letter Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the federal government to clear up the contradictory statements the agencies have made over the data’s use.
The DOJ has now sued eight states to gain access to their private voter data.
The DOJ also asked Minnesota for proof of the state’s compliance with HAVA.
Ken Martin, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and head of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party, won the election to become the new chair of the DNC.