Texas gives DOJ list of its 18 million registered voters
The Texas Tribune••nation
Key Points:
- Texas has complied with the Trump administration’s request by turning over its voter roll, containing data on approximately 18.4 million registered voters, to the U.S. Justice Department as of December 23.
- The voter roll shared includes sensitive personal information such as dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers, raising privacy and legal concerns among experts and voting rights groups.
- The Justice Department is seeking voter rolls from all states to enforce election laws related to voter list maintenance, but 23 states and Washington, D.C. have refused, leading to lawsuits; Texas is among 13 states that voluntarily complied.
- The Democratic National Committee has condemned Texas’s data turnover as a potential violation of federal election law and a threat
