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🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Internal DOJ emails obtained by voting rights watchdog CREW show that officials planned to share state voter data with Homeland Security from the June 2025 start of the effort — months before the Trump administration publicly admitted the data-sharing in September 2025. At least one DOJ voting section official told colleagues in November he was unaware the department was sharing the data, despite appearing in court on related voter roll cases. The newly revealed timeline contradicts prior DOJ statements to courts and states about when data-sharing plans were made and whether lawyers handling the litigation were informed of the department's intentions.
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“Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS”
Democracy Docket article cites specific June 16, 2025 email from Michael Gates to Harmeet Dhillon explicitly requesting DHS SAVE database access to compare against state voter rolls. FOIA-obtained emails corroborated by CREW and legal filings.
“DOJ lawyers who appeared in court in several lawsuits over the data may not have been kept in the loop about the department's plans for sharing it”
Article documents November 24 email from Timothy Mellett stating 'To my knowledge, this is not true' regarding data-sharing with DHS — showing at least one voting section deputy chief was unaware of the sharing arrangement.
“DOJ sent voter roll demand letters to states starting June 17, 2025, beginning with Wisconsin”
Article states 'A day after Gates sent his email, DOJ sent its first voter roll letter, demanding access to Wisconsin's statewide voter registration list.' Timeline aligns with Gates email dated June 16, 2025.
“DHS did not formally confirm the data-sharing arrangement until September 2025”
Article explicitly states 'In September, DHS finally confirmed to Democracy Docket that DOJ was sharing the voter roll data it collected from states' — marking first public admission of planned/underway sharing.
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