Pennsylvania’s top election official has rejected a request from the Trump administration to hand over sensitive voter information, setting up a clash between state privacy laws and the federal government’s effort to scrutinize voter rolls, The Hill reported.
Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt to lead the state’s election efforts in 2023. This week, he rebuffed a Department of Justice demand for voter data that included driver’s license and Social Security numbers of all registered Pennsylvanians.
“This request and reported efforts to collect broad data on millions of Americans represent a concerning attempt to expand the federal government’s role in our country’s electoral process,” Schmidt wrote in a letter Thursday to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
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