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Trump admin sued over alleged illegal collection of sensitive voter data from 47 states

A lawsuit alleges DHS collected voter files from 47 states and combined them with commercial datasets, violating federal privacy safeguards.

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Trump pressed states for info on millions of voters in the midterms. It’s mostly failed.Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states for their voters’ information and then,…
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