Trump pressed states for info on millions of voters in the midterms. It's mostly failed.

By: Jonathan Shorman

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: October 13, 2026

Words: 1,416

Last Updated: 1 day, 2 hours ago

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Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge.

The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states for their voters’ information and then, according to court records and federal documents, turned over the data it obtained to Homeland Security Investigations — a sub-agency of Immigration …

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