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This relates directly to Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice, No. 1:26-cv-01352-SLS (D.D.C.), in which a federal judge on October 9 vacated the Justice Department's policy for collecting and sharing state voter-registration records.

The documentary record reveals an important sequence of events.

On March 12, DOJ confirmed in writing that it had granted the Department of Homeland Security access to state voter-registration data. A separate May 25 report from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division recorded 50.6 million DOJ records ingested for further processing.

The available documents do not establish that all 50.6 million records came from that particular transfer, which states were represented, or whether the data was subsequently used in immigration enforcement.

The court found that DOJ's disclosures to ICE, USCIS, and contractors violated the Privacy Act. However, the October 9 order vacated the underlying policy without resolving what must happen to copies of voter data already distributed.

There is also a new development: On October 15, DOJ filed suit against California seeking to prevent certain ballots from being counted until voters' citizenship could be verified. The complaint describes a separate federal screening process, but does not establish a connection to the 50.6-million-record intake.

The article examines the court's findings, the underlying DOJ and ICE documents, and the unresolved legal question of how previously shared voter records are being retained or used.

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