{"id":15069,"date":"2025-07-30T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:19:08","slug":"trump-administration-requests-voter-data-from-illinois-elections-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/15069-trump-administration-requests-voter-data-from-illinois-elections-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Requests Voter Data from Illinois Elections Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>(THE ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By PETER HANCOCK<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration has asked Illinois election officials for a copy of the state\u2019s voter registration database, including sensitive data about individual voters and detailed information about the state\u2019s efforts to scrub ineligible voters from the rolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a letter dated Monday, July 28, lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division also asked for a list of all the election officials in Illinois who were responsible for carrying out federally mandated efforts to keep state\u2019s voter rolls accurate and up to date during a two-year period leading up to the November 2024 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State officials did not immediately comment on the request Tuesday. But David Becker, a former attorney in the DOJ\u2019s voting section who now runs the nonpartisan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/electioninnovation.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Election Innovation and Research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, said the letter is similar to requests filed in multiple other states and that it goes far beyond the Justice Department\u2019s legal authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Department of Justice asked for the complete voter file for the state of Illinois, including all fields in that file, which is an absolutely huge file that contains so much sensitive data about Illinois citizens, including driver&#8217;s license numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth that the Department of Justice is not entitled to receive and not entitled to demand,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cThey know this. Other states have told them this, and yet they continue to seek to receive this information, citing sections of federal law that don&#8217;t apply and don&#8217;t require that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The voter list maintenance activities are at the heart of a federal lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections that was filed last year by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed what\u2019s known as a \u201cstatement of interest\u201d in that case, indicating the agency has an interest in the outcome of the case, but stopping short of formally seeking to intervene as a party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/feds-weigh-in-on-lawsuit-challenging-how-illinois-maintains-voter-registration-rolls\/\"><b>Feds weigh in on lawsuit challenging how Illinois maintains voter registration rolls<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hearing in that case was scheduled for today in Chicago where U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis could render a decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>National Voter Registration Act<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1993 National Voter Registration Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, states are required to make available for public inspection records about their efforts to ensure their voter registration lists are accurate and up to date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are also required to file biennial reports with the federal Election Assistance Commission about the steps they have taken to keep their lists updated, such as mailing out confirmation notices to voters and removing the names of voters who have died or moved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to the Judicial Watch lawsuit, Illinois has asserted that it is a \u201cbottom up\u201d state when it comes to administering elections, meaning the registration lists are compiled and maintained by local election authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the DOJ letter and the Judicial Watch lawsuit, the report Illinois filed for the two-year period leading up to the 2024 election suggested several counties were doing a poor job of maintaining their local voter rolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DOJ letter asks not only for detailed explanations of those issues but also for a complete list of election officials who are responsible for carrying out the list maintenance responsibilities between November 2022 and November 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the DOJ letter states that 32 of the state\u2019s 102 counties reported they did not send out any confirmation notices during that period, while 16 other counties reported the number of notices they sent was more than 100% of all registered voters in the county.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The letter also asks for the number of voters identified as ineligible to vote since November 2022 either because they were noncitizens, adjudicated as incompetent, or for felony convictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFirst, I should say there is no federal law whatsoever that requires states to go through their lists and try to find noncitizens,\u201d Becker said. \u201cBut second, I&#8217;d note that there&#8217;s no evidence that there are any significant numbers of noncitizens on Illinois\u2019 or any other state\u2019s voter lists. So once again, it appears the DOJ is seeking to invent authority that Congress has simply not granted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officials at the State Board of Elections said the agency\u2019s legal division was reviewing the DOJ request but offered no further comment. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. 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