League of Women Voters of Utah, ACLU of Utah, ACLU Voting Rights Project File Motion To Protect Utah Voters' Privacy

SALT LAKE CITY — The League of Women Voters of Utah (LWVUT), represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. (ACLU of Utah) and the ACLU Voting Rights Project, filed a motion to intervene in US v Deidre Henderson and Utah to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from obtaining Utah voters’ personal data.

The filing comes after DOJ sued Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, who oversees Utah’s election system, for refusing to turn over Utah’s statewide voter roll. On February 26, 2026, DOJ filed a lawsuit seeking Utah’s unredacted voter list, containing Social Security numbers, birthdays, driver’s license data, and other private information that is protected under state and federal law.

Utah’s election system is safe, secure, and trusted by the vast majority of Utahns. DOJ’s sweeping lawsuits seeking access to sensitive voter information in Utah, 28 other states, and the District of Columbia are part of efforts to invade voters’ privacy—pushed by those more interested in sowing distrust than protecting the integrity of our voting system.

In the motion, the proposed intervenor-defendants argue that DOJ’s request threatens voter privacy and could result in the wrongful removal of eligible voters from the voter rolls. Movants seek to advance the interests of voter groups like the LWVUT, whose work is compromised when Utahns lack trust in the voter registration process, and creates the potential for any and all eligible voters in Utah to be targeted by the federal government, chilling civic engagement.



https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-women-voters-utah-aclu-utah-aclu-voting-rights-project-file-motion