Los Angeles (USA), December 12 (EFE). – The US Department of Justice (DOJ) intensified this Friday its fight to obtain information from the electoral rolls by suing four more states. The total number of lawsuits against states is 18, with the majority led by Democrats.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced federal lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada, alleging they failed to provide state voter lists upon request.
Last September, the DOJ filed a similar lawsuit against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Maine and Oregon, all dominated by Democrats, for a total of 18 defendant states.
The legal complaints aim to force election officials in every state to provide all voter information contained on their voter rolls, including names, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement that the Justice Department will not allow states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections “by refusing to comply with federal election laws.”
“If states fail in their duty to protect the integrity of the vote, we will,” he added.
The department is also suing Fulton County, Georgia, over records related to the 2020 election, an area that President Donald Trump has targeted after he was accused of leading a mafia organization with 18 accomplices, including his lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, where he narrowly lost to Joe Biden.
Days before his defeat was confirmed, Trump called Georgia’s secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to “find 11,780 votes” that would allow him to overturn the Democrat’s victory.
For this reason, the current US president went to a prison in Atlanta to take the mugshot that he later used during the election campaign to denounce the judicial persecution.
Last month, Georgia prosecutors dropped charges against Trump, marking a victory for the Republican. EFE
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