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Learn more at NEI Academy.org. In recent days, the Justice Department has sued eight states to

compel them to share their voter registration lists with the federal government. Those lists include

voters' personal data, like dates of birth and social security numbers.

State officials oppose the move because of concerns about how the information will be used.

That comes as President Trump continues to target election systems, including mail-in ballots.

Liz Landers is back now with a closer look.

Trump's targeting of mail-in voting is just one action he's been critical of.

To discuss more, I'm joined by David Becker, the executive director of the Nonpartisan

Nonprofit Center for Election, Innovation, and Research.

David, thank you so much for joining us.

The Department of Justice announced that they are suing after the states refused to turn over voter registration list. The Department of Justice sent us a statement

and said in part that Congress gave the Justice Department authority under statutes, and they

list out a few of these to ensure that states have proper voter registration procedures and programs

to maintain clean voter

roles containing only eligible voters in federal elections. Do the states have the ability to refuse

to send this information over? So first of all, the National Voter Registration Act and the

Help America Vote Act, which are two of the statutes that they cite, do in fact require and authorize the states to engage in list maintenance, voter list maintenance,

to keep their voter lists up to date. But those responsibilities reside with the states and the states

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