States right to keep voter rolls for proper purpose
There are circumstances where redundancy has its place; say extra batteries when the lights have gone out and the flashlight is dim.
But in terms of states’ duty to register voters for elections and maintain that list of voters? No. There’s no need — and only opportunity for governmental mischief — in a redundant federal list of voters, as now sought by the Trump administration and its lawsuits against states that have balked at demands for the detailed personal information of voters that are necessarily held by each state to run elections.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Washington state and five other states over those states’ failure to submit their full lists of registered voters and their complete information, despite offers from Washington Secretary of State Steven Hobbs and other states’ election officials to provide information that is publicly available.
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At least 27 states have been instructed to turn over their voter rolls; only two — Indiana and Wyoming — have fully complied.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-states-right-to-keep-voter-rolls-for-proper-purpose/