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RandySF

(80,183 posts)
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:33 AM Sunday

Democratic state election officials ​in letter ​ask if they were 'misled' by Trump administration

A group of Democratic secretaries of state in a letter to top Trump administration officials say they’re concerned the administration misled them about how it would use voter data collected from their states.

The letter, dated Tuesday, is addressed to Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, and Kristi Noem, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Justice, overseen by Bondi, in recent months has demanded voter information from numerous states. The information would allow the DOJ to evaluate state compliance with federal voting laws, department officials had said.

But federal officials later acknowledged that the DOJ shared voter roll information with Homeland Security to search it for noncitizens as a way to “scrub aliens from voter rolls.”

The secretaries in their letter express “immense concern” about how the information is being shared, and they “seek clarity on whether DOJ and DHS actively misled election officials regarding the uses of voter data.”



https://missouriindependent.com/2025/11/20/democratic-state-election-officials-in-letter-ask-if-they-were-misled-by-trump-administration/

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Shame on them. choie Sunday #1

choie

(6,461 posts)
1. Shame on them.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 05:37 AM
Sunday

Democratic officials on any level should never believe what the administration proffers as the reason they’re doing anything, much less why they’re requesting voter records. The default should always be to assume nefarious purposes.

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