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Secretary of State Steve Simon to feds: Nah • Minnesota Reformer [1]
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Date: 2025-07
The Office of Secretary of State Steve Simon is denying a request from the Trump administration to submit Minnesota’s voter registration list to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In a letter to the DOJ, Justin Erickson, Simon’s general counsel, writes that the secretary of state’s office “will require clear legal justification for the data and sufficient information to show that the data will be protected and used properly before it can consider whether it is appropriate to share Minnesota’s voter registration list.”
The letter is addressed to Maureen Riordan, acting chief, voting section of the DOJ.
As Stateline reported recently, the DOJ is seeking the voter registration lists of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information.
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