On September 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota 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 Minnesota and its Secretary of State Steve Simon violated the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 by refusing to produce a current unredacted electronic copy of the state’s voter registration list and for failing to provide information on the state’s voter list maintenance program or registration information for any ineligible voters. Minnesota expressed concerns over the rights and privacy of its citizens after the Department of Justice demanded unredacted voter list data, which would contain personally identifiable information such as partial Social Security numbers.  

On August 17, 2026, the court dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Minnesota for refusing to turn over an unredacted voter list containing every Minnesota voter’s private information.  

Minnesota runs the highest-turnout, most secure, and frankly best elections in America, and the Trump Administration had no legal right to our unredacted voters rolls with Minnesotans’ sensitive personal information. I’m gratified the court properly found the Trump Administration’s lawsuit to be the improper fishing expedition it clearly was from the start, and dismissed this case as we asked it to. I was proud to defend Secretary Simon and the State of Minnesota in this lawsuit and it’s no coincidence that Trump has now lost the same lawsuit 23 times in a row. Attorney General Keith Ellison