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A sign directs voters at a polling place in Kentucky in 2024. The Trump administration has sued dozens of states, including Kentucky, for their voter rolls. (Photo by Austin Anthony\/Kentucky Lantern)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed in court Thursday that it is sharing sensitive voter data with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizen voters. But a DOJ lawyer denied the department is building a national voter database.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has demanded states provide full copies of their voter lists, including sensitive personal information, such as driver\u2019s license and partial Social Security numbers. It has sued 29 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to turn over the data. At least a dozen other states have provided their lists.<\/p>\n

During a hearing in the Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit seeking Rhode Island\u2019s voter data<\/a>, DOJ attorney Eric Neff said the information would be shared with Homeland Security. U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy had asked whether the Justice Department could send the list to Homeland Security with instructions to search for noncitizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, and we intend to do so,\u201d Neff said.<\/p>\n

He added that the Justice Department and Homeland Security already have a \u201cuse agreement\u201d in place for such sharing.<\/p>\n

Three federal judges have so far rejected the Justice Department\u2019s demands for state voter data, and no judge has sided with the department. DOJ has appealed those decisions and oral arguments are scheduled for later this spring after the Trump administration pushed for quick decisions<\/a> ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has said it needs the voter data to determine whether states are complying with federal voting rights laws that require states to regularly update and clean their lists. The department has voiced particular determination to root out non-citizen voting, which is extremely rare.<\/p>\n

In September, Homeland Security told Stateline<\/a> in an unsigned statement that the Justice Department was sharing voter data with the agency in a collaborative effort.<\/p>\n

But Neff\u2019s courtroom statement on Thursday appeared to mark the first on-record acknowledgment of the data sharing. CBS News also reported<\/a> on Thursday that the two agencies were nearing a final agreement on sharing voter data for immigration and criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department and Homeland Security didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment from Stateline.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, a Justice Department lawyer sidestepped a question about whether voter data would be used for immigration purposes. On March 3 during a hearing in a lawsuit over Minnesota\u2019s voter roll, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez asked DOJ lawyer James Tucker whether there was intention to use the data for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot to my knowledge, no, your honor, not with the data we are getting,\u201d Tucker said, according to a transcript. But he added that some federal prosecutors were working with Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

During a federal court hearing in Maine on Thursday, Tucker said the Justice Department was not creating a national voter database. At the same time, he didn\u2019t rule out voter data being checked against federal databases.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, that\u2019s something that\u2019s been routine the United States has done in the past,\u201d Tucker said.<\/p>\n

Since President Donald Trump took office last year, Homeland Security has refashioned an online program previously used to verify whether immigrants qualified for government benefits into a tool that can verify U.S. citizenship. Called SAVE, the program is capable of checking millions of voters against federal databases for citizenship information.<\/p>\n

DHS has encouraged states to run their voter lists through the program. Some Democratic state election officials have expressed concerns about the program and point to instances where SAVE has wrongly flagged a voter as a potential noncitizen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are initiating litigation in states all around the country, seeking the same information in sort of this cookie-cutter way,\u201d Jonathan Bolton, an attorney in the Maine Attorney General\u2019s Office, said during Thursday\u2019s federal court hearing in Maine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich suggests that the purpose is not to investigate specific concerns about specific states, but it is to compile this sort of national voter registration database,\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n

Bolton was representing Maine Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows in the Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit for Maine\u2019s voter roll.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Current reporter Alexander Castro contributed reporting. Stateline reporter Jonathan Shorman can be reached at jshorman@stateline.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This story was originally produced by Stateline<\/a>, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Missouri Independent, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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