The Department of Justice has initiated formal requests for voter registration records and other election-related data from at least nine states, according to official state confirmations and federal documentation. The states contacted include Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The requests, sent through the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, focus on how states manage voter registration, clean their rolls, and identify ineligible voters.
The DOJ is seeking information on processes used to verify voter eligibility, such as checks against state databases to flag duplicate registrations, noncitizens, deceased individuals, and those disqualified due to felony convictions or mental incompetence.
Here is the letter sent to Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom:
Last week, nearly three weeks after the Justice Department request was made to Dahlstrom, the Alaska Division of Elections sent out a social media post explaining how voters are removed from the voter rolls:
In Colorado, the Justice Department asked for “all records” related to the 2024 general election, which may include ballots and voting equipment records. State officials have described the scope of the request as highly unusual.
Similar letters were sent to other states with varying levels of detail and specificity, ranging from general voter roll maintenance procedures to inquiries about voter verification methods, such as Arizona’s use of driver’s license numbers for identity confirmation.
These requests are issued under the authority of a March 2025 executive order signed by President Donald Trump, directing the Department of Justice to investigate suspected election-related crimes. The executive order also allows the DOJ to withhold certain federal funds from states that fail to comply with such investigations.
State responses to the DOJ inquiries have varied. Some, like Wisconsin, referred the DOJ to publicly accessible voter information portals that require payment of a nominal fee. Others, like Arizona, provided limited data consistent with federal law, while affirming their existing voter verification safeguards. Pennsylvania confirmed its cooperation with the DOJ but did not publicly disclose the extent of its data sharing.
The Alaska Division of Elections, under the direction of Dahlstrom, is working on a response.
Election officials in Colorado expressed concern over the unprecedented scope of the DOJ’s demand, noting that public voter data is readily accessible under state law but emphasizing restrictions on sensitive information such as Social Security numbers or drivers’ license numbers. Additionally, election officials in several states have cited statutory limitations on releasing certain types of data, even to federal agencies.
Under federal law, including the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the Department of Justice is empowered to monitor voter roll maintenance to ensure accuracy and prevent ineligible voting. Federal law permits oversight of voter list maintenance, demands for records encompassing all election materials and voting infrastructure could test the boundaries of federal authority.
Funny story., last year around this time, I literally witnessed a lady with an Alaskan license plate that simply said VOTE, and she was jamming, what looked like, perhaps hundreds of ballots, in the huffman drive up mail box. We were behind her waiting and observed her nervously and hastily jamming these ballots, as all the envelopes looked uniform like ballot envelopes.
Not funny at all. Sounds a bit criminal.
And you did not think for a moment to pull out your phone and get this on video? Damning evidence is not damning evidence if you don’t record.
Tim, which election was that?
I am not certain, but I do not believe that federal/state elections use outside drop boxes. Furthermore you have to request an absentee ballot from the state, unlike like the Muni mail-in-voting where ballots get send to all. Muni elections are in April.
Not good news for Election Czarina Dahlstrom.
Dahlstrom.
Abysmal failure.
Rank choice voting.
Dominion Voting Machines.
And don’t we have more “registered” voters than people of voting age in Alaska – kinda like Chicago?…
The public sector unions own Juneau and the people in it. It is unlikely the people controlling the data will self indict. We need third party audits. We should not be asked to trust people with no track record of trust worthiness.
Agree 100%
Agree the FBI needs to go seize the records and verify everything. Voter fraud is definitely happening. I demand accountability as an American citizen and a tax payer.
Alaska’s voter rolls are the worst in the nation – not rhetoric but validated from various government and non government agencies. There are several other issues which should be addressed, some need legislation, some don’t. Leaving the ERIC system, ditching dominion voting machines, forensic auditing (not the simple recount normally used) of election results which have anomalies, etc. Two consecutive republican lieutenant governors in a row have done little to address the known issues. Always afraid to rock the boat.
I became a poll worker when I retired.
I did that because I was suspicious of the system & wanted to see how it works.
Dominion boxes are just counters, nothing else; they count ovals & can count ovals on both sides if necessary.
Dominion counters are spot checked, w/ hand counts, to make sure the machine counted the ovals correctly. They are also checked (by hand counting ballots) after an election, if that precinct has historically weird results or it is a very close race.
For instance if a conservative ever won in my 70% Lib district (mid-town ANC) they would be checking the Dominions for accuracy (both parties have observers & the losing candidate would insist)
I am for forensic recounts & more hand counts to show the public better transparency, getting the dead wood off our voter rolls & NO RVC.
But people are focusing on the counting machine too much imo.
Keep in mind time & money.
How many State employees do you want spending days & days hand counting all the dots on over 340,000 ballots and how long would that take?
I want to know how many people are voting multiple times & how many dead people are voting. I want action taken against anyone cheating the system. Prison time would be a good start. You ride with criminals you can hang with them.
Did you see anyone using the other voting machine w/the touch screen? They’re usually set up for the handicapped. Just curious. When I worked elections (before RCV), I think I saw less than a handful of people ever use them. However, they weren’t simple counting machines.
Almost never. My 1st 4 elections were in the Jewel Lake area & not one time did anyone use the handicap voting screen. All the handicap voters came w/ someone who helped them vote (fam member/caretaker)
After that, at other pricincts, it may have been used once or twice at most.
They are to let a handicap voter (usually blind or in a wheelchair) vote “independently” and are not connected to anything electronically.
Those cast votes are printed on paper, that paper ballot is then added to the votes that will be counted at closing time.
The older handicap machines were SO hard to set up & then no one used them!
There are newer, more user friendly machines now.
These handicap machines, by law (ADA – Amer. Disability Act) must be sent all 200 small towns & villages in Alaska (as if Grandma in the village won’t have someone help her vote)
The one thing I always see at elections are ADA inspectors.
These are handicap people themselves who come in & go over your precinct w/ a fine tooth comb, then write you up for even the smallest infraction.
We were written up once for having that tablet on a table that was not at the required ADA height (even though no one actually used it)
They have always been the bane of existence for pollworkers …. complicated & unnecessary (imo)
Canada hand counts votes and results known same day. What are you talking about?
I see you are from CA (or any blue city) where hiring an army of Gov workers to spend hours doing something a simple counting machine can do is the norm.
I have no problem w/ that, but as a conservative, I can’t see it (we get $20/hr now)
Canada? Yea, lets do everything they do, that should insure us a conservative Government.
Great information there. It dominion machines are truly just oval counters, that are not actually connected to the internet, then we can assume that they cannot be hacked or tampered with. If all that is true, the. The Russia collusion narrative truly falls flat as it would seem to be absolutely impossible for Russia to have any power to electronically interfere with our 2016 election. If we are to believe that our election system is fortified for democrats, then we can also assume that when republicans win it is absolutely legit as well. Which means that we have overwhelming elected Trump through democracy and that democracy is not actually under attack and that is it working absolutely as intended and the Democrats are losing their minds because they know that We The People have absolutely had enough of their crap and that is why they are panicking so bad. They are losing their slush funds, their money laundering and their child trafficking operations.
It is good to know that our elections are safe and secure and that Americans are finally waking up and voting for the betterment of our country.
Go USA!
State employees?
What are you talking about?
Private citizens should be doing the counting and auditing – not the parasitical governing class.
Let me guess.
You vote Democrat.
You took the Covid jab.
I listened to a presentation last year by voter fraud researcher and mathmetician Doug Frank. He said he had reached out to Dahlstrom on his findings and never received a response. I then wrote her a letter urging her to take him up on listening to his findings and concerns. Again, zilch. Never did a dang thing about it. I have only one way to see this and that is we have an AWOL Lt. Gov. Thank God we have a proactive Trump Administration going something about voter fraud and making these government officials do what they are supposed to do. No way will I ever vote for Dahlstrom in the gubnatorial race. She is unqualified. A ‘do nothing’.
Here, here.
The state has been sued by Judicial Watch, who has actually forced changes in PA and LA among others. AK has essentially ignored the case. It is time to eliminate the voter’s rights act which made it easy to register without any real vetting and makes it nearly impossible to remove people that the state KNOWS has a driver’s license in another state.
Now we get to see how bad a job Lt Gov Nancy Dahlstrom is doing in her job!
More than that, the governor and staff along with the years of no good management. I’m sure there is more of that to pull pout.
The answer to the records request is a very big, TES!! Send the whole records request and let them investigate the rolls. Get it done!!! This state is long over due such a review.
“The Alaska Division of Elections, under the direction of Dahlstrom, is working on a response.”
Until now we haven’t heard anything from the Division of Elections under Dahlstoms’ stellar management style since all the irregularities of last year’s elections surfaced.
Probably took awhile to gather up the staff, turn on the power and figure out what to do. This is awesome.
The Trump administration was Illegally requesting States devulge voter soc security numbers, driver licenses and addresses from their voter roles. Moreover, the Executive branch does NOT rule over voters and therefore Trump’s EO is invalid.
Really? Where is your proof of all of that? Documented primary sources proof, not CNN or MSDNC.
you think the government doesn’t know our SS numbers?
What planet do you live on?
The Department of Justice is under the authority of the Executive branch. You might want to read the last paragraph in the article to see why it is DOJ has the abilityto review voter roles. I’m sorry that the illegal votes you’ve come to count upon will no longer be available to you, perhaps you should be more concerned with how voter rolls have been bastardized to push an agenda that is clearly based upon illegal support.
Great response I can’t wait for them to find out how Lisa is still a senator as she was not voted in to begin with and I pray they don’t stop with investigations of voting I hope next is our judges and attorneys boy will they find some big case corruption then the oil company’s etc this state has over 250,000 missing people still being ignored why! No other place can get by with that!
Social security numbers are Federal Teri. The president can demand whatever he wants. Do you got something to hide.?? And for gods sake do you not think the DOJ or the FBI can’t just pull up your entire life’s info in 2 minutes. ?? Nothing is hidden anymore.
You are aware that the feds already have SSANs and residences for every single person in the system. Matching them with voter registration is a relatively simple operation now that DOGE has encouraged the databases to talk to one another. Nice try, though. Thanks for playing. Cheers –
Illegally?
What law is being violated? Please cite Title, Chapter, Section.
Yes, yes and yes again. Stop the auto voter sign up on pfd’s
THE ONLY SANCTUARY CITY IS TO MAKE ETERNITY WITH GOD WE GOT TO MAKE THAT CUT ALL & IMAGINE SOON WE ALL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THESE GOD MOCKING STUCK ON STUPID CLOWNS ON THE OBAMA JUICE. RIGGED ELECTIONS HAVE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL ESPECIALLY FOR THE ONES WHO RIG IT LISA. WE THE PEOPLE LOVE YOUR GUTS SUZANNE.
Great. Maybe they will review actual ballots and ask the question of why in the last two elections have officials overseeing the elections been told to copy blank ballots to use due to the fact the election center did not send out enough ballots??
Where is Nancy Dahlstrom? As Lt. Governor shouldn’t she already be doing this on her own without DOJ intervention?
She is a useless uniparty bump. A career politician with no accomplishment. The occupy a slot like a potato. Avoid any activity that demonstrates initiative or change.
Every system in OUR government needs audited by outside auditors regularly period. If everything is fine that’s great and if it isn’t we can get it corrected. I do not want the feds auditing the feds or the state auditing the state. We need to shake it up.
Do we really want the federal government snooping around our elections here in Alaska?
Yes! Reasonable people realize that corruption exist in the voting process. The same reasonable people dismiss voting corruption as insignificant yet does impact the election results. One person one vote.
Bnow Such hypocrisy. You conservatives rally around smaller government, no federal overreach and no government intervention. Yet here you are throwing red tape spike strips under the tires of Alaskans.
Yes
May heads roll.
100,000 more votes were counted than recorded cast in PA.
Early in Governor Dunleavy’s term, he asked Commissioner of Administration Kelly Tshibaka to conduct a review of the Division of Elections (DOE). Kelly used her experience gained as an assistant federal Inspector General in DC to produced a report that provided analysis of the current DOE operations. She also provided recommendations to improve DOE and submitted it to the Dunleavy Administration. The Tshibaka report was reviewed and extensively modified by the Administration. Tshibaka was required to sign a ‘Non Disclosure Agreement’ (NDA). At the same time Senator Mike Shower, who was drafting legislation to improve Alaska’s voting process, requested a copy of the Tshibaka report from the administration. He received a report that was so totally redacted that it was useless. Numerous FOIA requests for release of the report were given the run around. Finally, last month the Tshibaka report was released unredacted. Questions upon questions arise. A few such as:
(1) Why was an investigation requested by the Governor cloaked for so long by an NDA?
(2) Why was a Senator who was drafting election reform legislation, not permitted to see the unredacted report?
(3) Why was the original Tshibaka Report edited extensively by the administration before final release?
(4) What assurances do we have that the recommendations in the amended Tshibaka report were ever implemented?
It is no wonder that the current DOJ is requesting voter records from nine states. Too many unexplained shenanigans are a part of their election processes. It is sad that Alaska is one of them. The unprecedented handling of Tshibaka report demands answers. This is not going away, Governor Dunleavy.
It is long overdue. The census count in Skagway is about one thousand and change, meanwhile the voter roll is about one thousand and change. If the DOJ wants to know how that is and how those people got on the voter rolls it should not be hard for them to find out who has organized and sponsored such acts.
Given how relatively easy it is to register to vote in Alaska, it seems asinine to allow a registration to remain on the rolls for 12 years: four years not voting plus 2 election cycles. This seems ripe for corruption, which, I guess, is why our mostly blue legislature won’t do anything to fix it. I call 🐂💩
Looking at Texas and Trump, I don’t trust MAGA.
What about Texas and Trump?
Oh… you mean the redistricting effort that has been going on since before Trump was elected. The one where they tried to redistrict by race, and got shot down in the Appellate court for violating several Federal voting laws? That thing in Texas?
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News flash! Redistricting happens all the time. They did it wrong in Texas, and now need to do it over. That Trump is President is simply a coincidence.
There are more registered voters in Alaska than there are Alaskans. If Dahlstrom won’t clean up our voter rolls, maybe the DOJ will.
Finally, light a fire under Dahlstrom’s posterior.
Kevin Meyer was no better! He did nothing when He was the Loot Governor!
The various State residency-related databases should be constantly auto checked against each other – PFD, Voter Reg, hunting and fishing licenses, deaths, and Corrections, to name a few. Any discontinuities, such as a voter reg but no PFD, or PFD eligibility pulled, a resident hunting license but no PFD or Voter reg, or a reported death or disenfranchising conviction but still receiving PFD and on the voter rolls, should be flagged and investigated.
There’s no reason all those databases shouldn’t be relational. Investigations could happen as noted, and once identified a note could be entered if everything is on the up and up. If not, removal from voter reg and PFD should be the default.
Adults should be assumed to be responsible enough that they can take the 5 minutes on free internet, available pretty much everywhere in the state in some fashion, at some point in the year prior to the PFD and election deadlines to check on their PFD and Voter eligibility.
If they are too lazy, or incompetent, or don’t care enough to put out that minimal effort to do so, they probably shouldn’t be voting.
Trust in elections starts with trust the registered voters are actually eligible to vote, and are able to vote (alive). That means clean voter rolls.
Hell yes we want our GOVT snooping around in our corrupt Alaskan elections! That is what we voted for! Alaska is so freaken corrupt… better hang on! They have so much evidence it’s gonna make peoples heads spin! If you’ve been FA you’re gonna be FO found out!
They are just doing their jobs. So that is good. Now, if everyone would do their jobs every thing would be hunky dory, wouldn’t it.