The complaint was filed Tuesday, December 2, 2025 against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, accusing them of violating federal law by refusing to provide statewide voter registration rolls upon request.
The DOJ claims that the states failed to meet their obligations under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1960, three federal statutes that require states to maintain accurate voter rolls and make those records available for inspection.
Grassroots organizations like SecureTheVoteMD (https://securethevotemd.com/2025/04/15/federal-court-finds-maryland-state-board-of-elections-in-violation-of-federal-law-lawmakers-demand-accountability/) and Maryland Election Integrity LLC. The groups claim that the state’s election board failed to purge ineligible voters, ensure machine certification, comply with transparency laws, and allow public oversight of voter data.
The Republican National Committee also filed suit in December claiming there are more voters listed on rolls in several counties listed more voter than there are eligible adults.
Exclusive: RNC hits Maryland with election integrity lawsuit
On December 2, Prince George’s County finally released the unredacted voter records of Ian Andre Roberts’ registration documents after initially releasing heavily redacted versions of the documents that blacked out Roberts’ sex, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth and other information.
Roberts was an illegal immigrant who once lived in Maryland but was recently discovered in Iowa where he was the Superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools. He was arrested by ICE and was working without a work authorization, with a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge. Roberts had lived in Maryland prior to Iowa.
When it was discovered that he was on the voter rolls in Maryland, voter integrity advocates demanded his unredacted voter records.
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Now after a complaint, the DOJ seeks all of Maryland’s voter registration records.
U. S. Attorney General Pam Bondi commented on the suit,” Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance,” Bondi said in a statement announcing the lawsuits. “The Department of Justice will continue filing proactive election integrity litigation until states comply with basic election safeguards.”
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division stated,”Our federal elections laws ensure every American citizen may vote freely and fairly,” Dhillon said. “States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results. At this Department of Justice, we will not stand for this open defiance of federal civil rights laws.”
Maryland Governor Wes Moore (Democrat) called the lawsuit “politically motivated” and uncalled for. He stated that Maryland’s election board does everything correctly and transparently.
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