Skip to content
Democracy SENTRY
UpdateNationalMonday, October 12, 2026

Federal judge bars Justice Department from using voter roll data from states

Reporting by
Democracy Docket
“This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s voter roll scheme hits a major roadblock, and ICE’s role in voting crackdown revealed”, Monday, October 12, 2026
Read the full story
What happened

A federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice has no right to state voter roll data and barred it from using data already received from 18 states. The judge said states themselves may still run their rolls through SAVE. The ruling, if it stands, could complicate the administration's separate effort to build a national citizenship list, which is the subject of its own lawsuit.1

18 states
states that had sent data to the Department of Justice1
More on this story
The answers behind this

Ask

Have a question about this?

Ask it here. If we do not have the answer yet, we will find it.