On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Virginia alleging that the state has failed to provide information about voter list maintenance procedures and electronic copies of statewide voter rolls. The lawsuit alleges that Virginia and its State Elections Commissioner Susan Beals violated the Civil Rights Act of 1960 by refusing to produce a current unredacted electronic copy of the state’s voter registration list. According to the lawsuit, Commissioner Beals refused to provide the complete, unredacted statewide voter registration list, including voters’ full names, dates of birth, residential addresses, and either driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers.

On July 14, 2026, the court dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Virginia for refusing to turn over an unredacted voter list containing every Virginia voter’s private information. 

Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, and Harmeet Dhillon tried to seize Virginians’ voter data through what we successfully argued was a contrived demand with no basis in law. The court saw through the ploy and rejected their attempt to attack our electoral system. We are proud of the secure, professional way elections are run in Virginia, and grateful to the attorneys in the Office of the Attorney General whose work stopped Trump’s partisan operatives from dragging our system into their campaign of chaos and distrust.Attorney General Jay Jones