On The Road To...

...Authoritarianism. one of the things a dictator needs is a good computer database so big brother can track everyone!

Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states.

The New York Times

By Devlin Barrett and Nick Corasaniti

September 9, 2025

The Justice Department is compiling the largest set of national voter roll data it has ever collected, buttressing an effort by President Trump and his supporters to try to prove long-running, unsubstantiated claims that droves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort to essentially establish a national voting database, involving more than 30 states, has elicited serious concerns among voting rights experts because it is led by allies of the president, who as recently as this January refused to acknowledge Joseph R. Biden Jr. fairly won the 2020 election. It has also raised worries that those same officials could use the data to revive lies of a stolen election, or try to discredit future election results.

The initiative has proceeded along two tracks, one at the Justice Department’s civil rights division and another at its criminal division, seeking data about individual voters across the country, including names and addresses, in a move that experts say may violate the law. It is a significant break from decades of practice by Republican and Democratic administrations, which believed that doing so was federal overreach and ripe for abuse.

I wrote about this Wednesday but today I am looking at the harm this can cause.

Nearly every state has resisted turning over voter files with private, personally identifiable information on voters like driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers. Last week, a local judge blocked South Carolina from releasing private voter information to the Justice Department.

This is sometime that the KGB, or the old East German Stasi did!

The Republican states are doing high-fives, the Democratic states are all going no-way this smacks too much as Big Brother!

Justin R. Erickson, the general counsel for Minnesota’s secretary of state, raised fears that the data would be used to further the administration’s own priorities. In a letter last month to the Justice Department, he wrote, “Equally concerning is the possibility that the D.O.J. will use the data inappropriately and the fact that the D.O.J. does not appear to have complied with the necessary legal requirements to obtain or use data on several million people.”

This is all to this is all the perpetuate the Republican "Big Lie" about election fraud... meanwhile they create this massive database on the citizens...

Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information

The Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters.

Brennan Institute

By Kaylie Martinez-Ochoa, Eileen O'Connor, & Patrick Berry

August 28, 2025

Since May, the Justice Department has sent letters or emails to at least 26 states requesting details about voters, election officials, and election administration processes, with 22 states receiving specific requests for statewide voter registration lists. These inquiries from the DOJ’s Civil Rights and Criminal Divisions range from requests to access voter registration lists to questions about states’ list-maintenance procedures, which are steps states take to ensure that voters who become ineligible, such as those who move to another state, are removed from the rolls.  

While these kinds of mass requests to states are uncommon, they are not unprecedented. For example, during the first Trump administration, the Civil Rights Division sent letters to all 44 states covered by the National Voter Registration Act asking for information about compliance with a section of that law. 

This time, however, the Civil Rights Division is asking for troves of confidential voter information by demanding full copies of states’ computerized voter registration lists, including drivers’ license numbers and partial social security numbers. As we detail in a separate analysis, the collection of this sensitive information by the federal government leads to serious privacy and security concerns and may violate state and federal laws.

All hail Trump: President for Life!

The Brennan Center for Politics wrote that:

First, the federal government does not play any role in maintaining voter rolls. States and local governments run our elections, and as part of this responsibility, state and local election officials maintain voter files, which includes adding newly registered voters and removing voters who become ineligible (for example, because they move). The DOJ’s demands for the voter files are one element of the attempted federal takeover of federal elections. If its requests succeed, the department could amass a federal database of personal information about every registered voter in the country. The Trump administration may use such a database to further promote false claims about election fraud, target political opponents, or attempt to force states to remove voters from the rolls based on incomplete information. This vast collection of personal information could also easily be disclosed or misused by unauthorized individuals and become a prime target for hackers.        

Second, the DOJ’s demands are not justified as an attempt to enforce federal voting laws. Instead, President Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections — which is currently facing a number of legal challenges — directs the federal government to collect voter files from all the states. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which the DOJ’s August letters cite as the basis for its demand for the voter files, the department is permitted to request records “relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election.” However, the law requires that the DOJ provide a “basis and purpose” for the request. Many of its letters to states do not appear to satisfy this requirement.

There are no laws, no Congressional funding, no budget has been approved, nor any legal authority...

Further, many states have laws that would prohibit them from disclosing some of this sensitive voter information, which a few states have noted when responding to federal officials. The DOJ would need to obtain a federal court order to force states to violate their own privacy laws, and it has failed to do so.

The executive branch has no authority to run our elections, nor any authority to compile a massive database of voters’ personal information. The DOJ’s efforts threaten individuals’ privacy and constitute yet another way in which the federal government is seeking to interfere with states’ constitutionally mandated power to conduct elections

We are well on road to a fascist, authoritarianism government under Herr Trump.