California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber has scored a major victory in a federal case this week that threatened to give the U.S. government unprecedented access to sensitive voter information.
The case, United States of America v. Weber, was dismissed by a federal district court, ending the federal Department of Justice’s attempt to obtain California’s entire statewide voter registration database.
The requested data included personal information such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, home addresses, voting history, and partisan affiliation.
The court emphasized that federal laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act were intended to protect voting rights, not to grant the federal government unchecked access to private voter data.
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In Iowa you can and I have bought these very kinds of databases for our campaigns back in the day. These are literally imaginary arguments the judge is making up.
