DOJ Fighting For Election Integrity

December 6, 2025

In one of the most aggressive federal election-integrity operations in modern American history, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for Civil Rights, Harmeet K. Dhillon, has compelled the Department of Justice to demand complete, unredacted voter registration databases from all 50 states. The stated purpose is simple and backed by statute: enforce the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Section 8 of the NVRA states that voter roll list maintenance is a requirement. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1960, collectively require states to keep accurate voter rolls and grant the DOJ inspection rights for federal oversight.

What the DOJ has already uncovered from the limited number of states that have turned over voter roll data is staggering:

• More than 260,000 deceased individuals still registered to vote

• Tens of thousands of confirmed non-citizens on the rolls

• Tens of thousands of duplicate registrations, out-of-state residents, and other ineligible entries

  
  

Dhillon has been blunt: “In every state we’ve looked at, there are people on the voter rolls who don’t belong there. This is not a bug in the system: in many blue states, it is a feature.”

Only 11 states fully complied voluntarily with the DOJ’s demand for complete, unredacted files (including full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license number, and last-four SSN digits), with Wyoming and Indiana being among the first to comply. The remaining 39 either provided redacted or public-facing data, offered only in-person viewing, or outright refused.

The DOJ response has been swift and unrelenting: federal lawsuits.

As of today, 14 states have been sued in federal court for non-compliance:

• California

• Delaware

• Maine

• Maryland

• Michigan

• Minnesota

• New Hampshire

• New Mexico

• New York

• Oregon

• Pennsylvania

• Rhode Island

• Vermont

• Washington

An initial wave of eight lawsuits was filed earlier in 2025, followed by a second wave of six on December 2, 2025.

California: The Most Defiant State — Sued Not Once, But Twice

California stands alone as the only state hit with two separate federal lawsuits in the same year over voter-roll concealment.

1. June 25, 2025 – U.S. District Court, Central District of California Case 8:25-cv-01370: United States v. Robert Page, Registrar of Voters for Orange County - The DOJ accused Orange County of systematically refusing to remove known non-citizen registrations and concealing records of cancellations for citizenship ineligibility. The complaint alleges the county was actively hiding unlawful non-citizen voters in direct violation of the NVRA and HAVA.

2. September 25, 2025 – U.S. District Court, Los Angeles, United States v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State - Part of a six-state wave (CA, MI, MN, NY, NH, PA), California was sued for refusing to turn over the full statewide voter file. The state offered only redacted data or in-person viewing — offers the DOJ deemed “clearly insufficient” for meaningful federal verification. As of December 6, 2025, California has still not complied. A hearing was held on December 5, 2025; the case remains active with no settlement.

   
   

California officials continue to cite “privacy concerns” and state law as justification for defiance — the same arguments used by every sued blue state. Critics, including AAG Dhillon, call this a deliberate shield to protect bloated, inaccurate voter rolls.

Why California Is Expected to Be the Worst Offender

California operates the most permissive voter-registration system in the nation, with virtually every other blue state not being very far behind:

• Automatic voter registration at the DMV (including for non-citizens who receive driver’s licenses),

• No voter ID or citizenship ID requirement,

• Universal mail-in ballots sent to every active registrant,

• Same-day registration,

• Weak or non-existent mechanisms for removing movers, inactive or other ineligible voters.

  
  

Past California audits have already admitted to mistakenly registering thousands of ineligible individuals via the DMV “Motor Voter” process, citing it as a “glitch”. Independent audits and whistleblowers have long claimed the real number is in orders of magnitude higher.

Dhillon has been explicit: California’s “loosey-goosey” approach to voter-roll maintenance “is no accident. It is on purpose. It is a feature, not a bug.” The expectation inside the DOJ is that when California’s full file is finally obtained — likely via court order — it will reveal the largest concentration of non-citizen, deceased, duplicate, and out-of-state registrations in the country.

The Bottom Line

The Department of Justice is no longer asking politely. It is using every statutory tool at its disposal to force transparency and accuracy onto voter rolls that have been neglected or deliberately inflated for decades.

The resistance from 39 states, the double lawsuit against California, and the already documented 260,000+ dead registrants and tens of thousands of non-citizens lay bare a simple truth: many states have been operating election systems that are painfully weak or outright invite fraud resulting in the dilution of the votes of legal citizens.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has made it clear this is only the beginning. More lawsuits are in preparation, more data is being analyzed daily, and full nationwide compliance is coming — whether voluntarily or by court order.

America is finally getting the first comprehensive, top-to-bottom audit of its voter rolls in generations.

And what has been revealed to date is not pretty.

Sources and References

1. U.S. Department of Justice Press Release, “DOJ Demands Voter Registration Lists from All 50 States,” March 2025

2. U.S. Department of Justice Press Release, “Civil Rights Division Announces First Wave of NVRA Enforcement Actions,” Summer 2025

3. United States v. Robert Page, Case 8:25-cv-01370 (C.D. Cal. filed June 25, 2025)

4. United States v. Shirley N. Weber, Case No. pending (C.D. Cal. filed September 25, 2025)

5. U.S. Department of Justice Press Release, “Six Additional States Sued for Voter Roll Non-Compliance,” December 2, 2025

6. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, public statements on X and in interviews, October–December 2025 (multiple posts describing “260,000 deceased,” “thousands of non-citizens,” and California’s deliberate “loosey-goosey” maintenance)

7. DOJ Civil Rights Division internal findings briefing, reported December 5, 2025

8. National Voter Registration Act § 8, 52 U.S.C. § 20507

9. Help America Vote Act of 2002

10. Civil Rights Act of 1960, 52 U.S.C. § 20701 (inspection rights)

11. DoJ Video of Harmeet Dhillon speaking about the Voting Rights Act - https://youtu.be/MCTzHGmWjuo

All case filings are publicly available on PACER. DOJ press releases are archived at justice.gov.