Donald must be REALLY FUCKING Scared….
He’s trying to get to the midterm vote to stop what appears to be a Democratic wave vote against Republicans and HIMSELF….
The Trump administration on Thursday sued five states for voter data, including three governed by Republicans, some of the first red states to be targeted in an escalating effort to seize the personal and private information of voters ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The Justice Department lawsuits targeted the Republican-led states of Utah, Oklahoma and West Virginia, in addition to Kentucky and New Jersey. It had already sued 24 states, most of them led by Democrats.
The suits filed on Thursday did not directly mention the Trump administration’s broader allegations of what it calls voter fraud, which the government has used elsewhere to justify efforts to seize ballots and other voting records. Mr. Trump has also recently pushed legislation to address his debunked claims of widespread election fraud, and his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
In 2024, Republicans won every statewide race, every House seat and supermajorities in the state legislatures in Utah, Oklahomaand West Virginia. Kentucky, which has a Democratic governor, has a single Democratic congressman: Representative Morgan McGarvey. The top elections officials in Utah, West Virginia and Kentucky are Republicans. The top elections official in Oklahoma is elected to two-year terms by the Republican-dominated state senate….
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The Justice Department has asked nearly every state for their complete, unredacted voter rolls in a quest to essentially establish a national voting database before the midterms. Mr. Trump has called for Republicans to “nationalize” elections, though the Constitution leaves their administration to the states.
So far, roughly 11 Republican-governed states have complied with the requests for voter data, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, while the states with Republican leadership targeted by the Justice Department lawsuits on Thursday have not….
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