Trump's DOJ makes its most sweeping demand for election data yet

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Source: NPR

Updated June 11, 2025 5:28 PM ET


The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding an unprecedented amount of election data from at least one state, according to documents obtained by NPR, as the DOJ transformed by the Trump administration reviews cases targeting the president's political allies and caters to his desire to exert more power over state voting processes.

On May 12, the Justice Department asked Colorado's secretary of state to turn over "all records" relating to 2024 federal elections, as well as preserve any records that remain from the 2020 election — a sprawling request several voting experts and officials told NPR was highly unusual and concerning, given President Trump's false claims about elections. "What they're going to do with all this data, I don't know," said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat. "But I'm sure they will use it to push their ridiculous disinformation and lies to the American public."

The request could be interpreted to include voter registration materials, ballots and voting equipment, much of which is retained by counties, not the secretary of state. But if Colorado were to produce all records from the 2024 general and primary elections, they "would fill Mile High Stadium," said David Becker, a former Justice Department attorney who worked in the Voting Section during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

"It would be an enormous amount of information, and it's very unlikely the DOJ would even know what to do with all of that," said Becker, who now runs the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR). "This appears more like a fishing expedition than it does some kind of targeted investigation."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5426097/trump-justice-department-voter-data-colorado

[Farmer-Rick]

1. They are going to use the data to rig elections and hunt down liberals.

"What they're going to do with all this data, I don't know," said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold."

Well duh. What do you think Nazis use voting info for in the department of justice? They are going to create a data pool and use it to flip votes for their buddies and Trump humpers. And they are going to hunt down democratic voters and make their lives miserable.