The Trump administration has spent months on a campaign to collect nonpublic voter data from nearly every state, facing pushback from states and concerns from privacy advocates.
President Donald Trump and Justice Department officials have cast the effort as a push to clamp down on alleged voting fraud, amid a broader Trump administration effort to collect data about Americans.
Justice Department officials contend that the requests to states, and the lawsuits the government has filed against those who haven’t turned over the voter information, are needed to keep American elections secure.
