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NAACP sues to protect voter data
NAACP and allied groups seek judicial protection for personal voter data seized by the FBI to prevent disclosure or misuse, filing legal action this week.
- This week, the NAACP and allied groups filed a motion through the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on behalf of the NAACP, Georgia and Atlanta NAACP organizations, and the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda.
- Justice Department has sued 23 states and the District of Columbia, and FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections hub that led to the Jan. 28 seizure of ballots and voter rolls.
- The filing requests court-ordered limits on government use of the seized data, barring use beyond the criminal investigation cited in the search-warrant affidavit, and seeks an inventory of seized documents and records inventory with disclosures of unauthorized access or copying.
- Fulton County moved to recover seized materials amid competing custody claims, while the Department of Justice did not immediately comment Monday despite seeking data for election security amid critics' concerns.
- Civil-Rights lawyers argue the motion warns repeated efforts to access 2020 election records heighten privacy concerns and could chill voters whose information was collected, while federal courts in several states reject Justice Department litigation in 23 states and D.C.
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NAACP seeks to block DOJ use of Fulton County election data
Civil rights groups are asking a federal court to block the Justice Department immediately from using election materials seized in a January raid of a Fulton County elections facility, warning that the data could be repurposed to build what they described as a “national voter database” of eligible voters. In a motion filed late Sunday, the NAACP and allied organizations argued that Georgia voters entrusted the state with “sensitive personal info…
NAACP asks judge to protect against 'misuse' of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia
The NAACP and other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the FBI from an elections warehouse just outside Atlanta.Georgia residents entrusted the state with their sensitive personal information when they registered to vote, and the Jan. 28 seizure of ballots and other election documents from the Fulton County elections hub breached that guarantee, infringed constitutional protections of privac…
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