Elias Law Group Moves to Intervene in All 22 DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Elias Law Group has now filed motions to intervene on behalf of voters and pro-voting organizations in all 22 lawsuits the Trump Administration's Department of Justice has filed since September, seeking to compel states to provide their complete, unredacted voter registration files to the federal government.
In each lawsuit, the DOJ is demanding that states turn over the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans, including names, home addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.
Since the Department of Justice began filing these lawsuits in September, Elias Law Group attorneys have moved swiftly to protect voters in each state, filing motions to intervene within days of the DOJ filing a lawsuit.
The Trump Administration has filed lawsuits demanding voter data in California, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
"The Department of Justice's dangerous campaign to seize private voter information from states across the country is an unacceptable overreach that threatens both voter privacy and election integrity," said Elisabeth Frost, Litigation Chair at Elias Law Group. "States already provide all that they must in compliance with federal law. The DOJ’s demands go far beyond legal requirements and raise serious questions about voter intimidation, voter suppression, and misuse of private data for partisan purposes. We are intervening in every single one of these cases to protect the rights of voters and defend the states' authority to administer their own elections and safeguard their residents' sensitive personal information."
Motions to intervene below:
Elias Law Group is now litigating 75 voting and election cases in 39 states.
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