Recently Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she has directed the Department of Justice to probe election procedures throughout the country as part of the administration's efforts to get non-citizens off voter rolls.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division is largely leading the effort, which has involved seeking information from states about their election practices and voter registration lists, sometimes known as "voter rolls," and placing an emphasis on identifying any noncitizens on them.
Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times and author of “Crooked: What Really Happened in the 2020 Election and How to Stop the Fraud." He says this review has been a long time coming.
"COVID-19 was used as a tool by Democrats to weaken election integrity laws all over the country. They introduced unmanned ballot boxes, mail in ballots. They extended voting periods to ridiculous lengths like 5 weeks before the election in some states … and counting ballots after Election Day. All these things should be tightened and I'm glad that the Justice Department is moving ahead to review how these excesses were abused in past elections and how they could be reformed for future elections."
Some states, like Wisconsin and Utah, have shared recent election-related correspondence they had with the DOJ on state websites. New Hampshire's Republican secretary of state rejected a request to provide the DOJ with a statewide database of voters, saying laws do not allow the state to do that, Fox News reported.
The department sent more unusual demand letters to numerous local election offices in California, asking for extensive personal data about any noncitizens who ended up on voter registration lists.
At least one of the recipients, Orange County, resisted the request, prompting the DOJ to sue. Attorneys for the county responded that county election officials were authorized under federal law to withhold sensitive information about voters, Fox News reported.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March instructing the DOJ to coordinate with states on election integrity.
