Even deep red states are blocking Trump DOJ's aggressive voter push

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The Donald Trump administration's aggressive push to obtain sensitive voter registration data has encountered unexpected resistance from Republican-led states, revealing fissures within GOP ranks over federalism and election security.

While the Justice Department has sued 25 mostly Democratic states for voter roll information, at least six Republican-led states have quietly refused to comply with demands for confidential data including Social Security numbers, driver's license IDs, and current residences, reported CNN.

GOP election officials cite state privacy laws and constitutional concerns about federal overreach, and Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson, president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, rejected the DOJ's proposed agreement requiring states to remove voters deemed ineligible within 45 days.

"We were adamant on the idea that maintaining voter rolls should be done on the state level," Watson told CNN.

A Republican official, speaking anonymously to avoid White House retaliation, suggested the data could be weaponized for immigration enforcement or used as "a cudgel" to delegitimize midterm results if Republicans lose.

https://www.rawstory.com/department-of-justice-voter-rolls/

And the following quote shows that even some Republicans see right through the con artist.

“If states don’t give this information and then Republicans lose and they can go back and say, ‘See, it’s because they didn’t give us this information, so they cheated and all these illegal people that shouldn’t have been voting voted,’” the official said.