It's refreshing to hear that the DoJ is not messing around in certain areas of law enforcement.
Especially when it comes to voter integrity.
From Portland to ... the other Portland.
Oregon and Maine have refused to comply with the Department of Justice in their nationwide investigation into election integrity. And they're about to be in all sorts of trouble if Harmeet Dhillon has her way.
Today, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sued the states of Oregon and Maine, and their respective Secretaries of State, for failing to provide information regarding voter list maintenance procedures and electronic copies of statewide voter registration lists.
'States simply cannot pick and choose which federal laws they will comply with, including our voting laws, which ensure that all American citizens have equal access to the ballot in federal elections,' said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. 'American citizens have a right to feel confident in the integrity of our electoral process, and the refusal of certain states to protect their citizens against vote dilution will result in legal consequences.'
AG Pam Bondi, Dhillon, and the Department of Justice are using a trio of laws to go after the two Democrat-controlled states for refusing to comply with the Trump admin's efforts to make sure our elections are legit.
The DoJ alleges that the two states are withholding "current unredacted electronic copy of the state's voter registration list," as well as not providing info about the maintenance program for how they check the voter rolls in Oregon and Maine.
The states also are not providing info that could reveal any ineligible voters still on the rolls.
The lawsuit against Maine alleges that Maine and its Secretary of State Shenna Bellows violated the NVRA, HAVA, and CRA by refusing to provide data regarding the removal of ineligible individuals and to produce an unredacted, computerized state voter registration list.
Yet both states gave identical information requested by the Justice Department to a private organization.
On one hand, the states seem to be very protective of this information when it comes to sharing with the federal government, but on the other hand … they're giving out voter roll info to private organizations?
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