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Jilly_in_VA

(12,756 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:38 PM Saturday

Justice Department demands Illinois hand over voter data. Election officials are debating compliance.

Illinois election officials are weighing whether to comply with a demand from Republican President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to turn over by Sept. 1 the state’s full voter registration list, including voters’ birth dates, driver’s license numbers, signatures and partial Social Security numbers.

The Labor Day deadline, sent to Illinois State Board of Elections officials via email Thursday, marks an escalation of a conflict that’s been brewing between state and federal officials since the Civil Rights Division of Trump’s Justice Department in late July requested the voter data and a laundry list of other information on Illinois elections and voters.

The push for disclosure of Illinois voters’ sensitive personal information is part of a broader effort from the Trump administration to exert federal authority over state-run elections, including shifting the Civil Rights Division’s focus from ensuring access to the polls to combating the specter of voter fraud. Several other states, including neighboring Wisconsin, have received similar data requests this summer, while the Justice Department in recent months has filed lawsuits against election officials in North Carolina and Orange County, California, over issues related to their voter rolls.

A spokesman for the Illinois board said election officials intend to respond to the Justice Department’s latest demand by Sept. 2, the day after the Labor Day holiday.

During Trump’s first term, a so-called election integrity commission he established made a similar request, but the board never turned over the data.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/23/justice-department-illinois-voter-data/

Thell the orange slime to go fuck himself. Your governor already has!

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A promised response the day after the deadline sounds like an incoming lawsuit bucolic_frolic Saturday #1
There's no debate: NO FUCKING WAY! Chasstev365 Saturday #2
Pritzker won't let them CanonRay Saturday #3
NOT JUST NO, BUT FUCK NO. CaliforniaPeggy Saturday #4
Destroy it. Iggo Saturday #5
As an Illinois kacekwl Saturday #6

Chasstev365

(6,027 posts)
2. There's no debate: NO FUCKING WAY!
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:03 PM
Saturday

Tell Comrade Putin and his bitch Trump to go fuck themselves!



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