The Justice Department is reportedly assembling an unprecedented national voter database
Source: MSNBC
The Justice Department is reportedly assembling an unprecedented national voter database
Trump could potentially use the information to attempt to sow doubt about elections.
Sept. 11, 2025, 5:26 PM EDT
By Zeeshan Aleem
The Justice Department is reportedly putting together a gigantic and unprecedented data base of national voter information — and it could help President Donald Trump’s efforts to deny the 2020 election results or cast doubt on future elections.
The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that the “Justice Department is compiling the largest set of national voter roll data it has ever collected, buttressing an effort by President Trump and his supporters to try to prove long-running, unsubstantiated claims that droves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally.” The Times reports that the initiative has proceeded through efforts at both the Justice Department’s civil rights division and criminal division, “seeking data about individual voters across the country, including names and addresses, in a move that experts say may violate the law.”
Plenty of studies indicate that noncitizen voting is so vanishingly rare that it poses no threat to election integrity. For example, after the 2016 elections, the Brennan Center for Justice surveyed election officials in 42 jurisdictions with high immigration populations and found a suspected noncitizen voting rate of 0.0001%.
Justin Levitt, a former Justice Department official who’s an election law expert at Loyola Marymount University’s law school, likens DOJ’s efforts to Trump deploying the National Guard to handle domestic law enforcement. He told the Times, “It’s wading in, without authorization and against the law, with an overly heavy federal hand to take over a function that states are actually doing just fine.” He described the reported effort as “wildly illegal” and “deeply troubling” and said “nobody asked for this.”
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Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-doj-national-voter-database-non-citizens-rcna230393
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