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A conservative legal group with a long record of promoting voter roll purges sued Oklahoma, demanding access to its voter registration list just months after the state agreed to hand over sensitive voter data to the Trump administration.
Oklahoma announced it agreed to turn over its full voter rolls to the Trump Justice Department — including sensitive personal data the state had previously refused to provide.
The Trump Justice Department abruptly dropped its lawsuit seeking Oklahoma’s unredacted voter rolls — retreating before a judge could even weigh in.
Mullin said during a March 18 confirmation hearing for his nomination, that he wouldn’t rule out sending ICE agents to the polls during midterms.
MAGA’s push to ram through the most restrictive voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress is coming to a head.
Federal officials in the Trump Justice Department spent months following up on a voter roll demand that Oklahoma election officials never received — because they were emailing the wrong address.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
The Justice Department sued five new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well.
An executive order issued in 2021 by President Biden to promote voter registration is still drawing rebuke from GOP-led states in court.
On Wednesday, March 8, the Oklahoma House passed House Bill 1415, a bill that would bifurcate the election administration of state and federal elections if Oklahoma officials and lawmakers disliked federal election law.
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