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Why state election officials say the Trump administration misled them

Here & Now Anytime

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ten secretaries of state are demanding answers from the Trump administration. Earlier this month, they wrote a letter to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security with concerns about how voter information they were asked to submit would be used. Arizona's Secretary of State Adrian Fontes talks about the letter and the implications for midterms. Then, a religious nonprofit and several Catholic clergy are suing the Trump administration for blocking them from ministering to people at an ICE detention center near Chicago. Father David Inczauskis tells us more. And, a record number of Indigenous people from around the world took part in COP30. Indigenous Climate Action's Rosalyn Boucha explains what the talks accomplished and whether indigenous concerns were addressed.

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0:28.5

Their job is to make sure that we're in compliance with the law, not to scrutinize individual voters.

0:30.5

And that's why we said no.

0:35.9

Arizona's Secretary of State is part of a group of election officials fighting the Trump administration over its collection of voter data.

0:39.7

Today is Monday, November 24th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

0:45.2

I'm Chris Bentley.

0:53.8

Today on the show, Catholic clergy in Chicago are suing the Trump administration for blogging them from ministering to people at an ice facility.

1:03.5

Also, as the COP 30 climate summit wraps up in Brazil, indigenous people share concerns about a lack of progress and representation.

1:12.8

We continue to see huge barriers for meaningful participation of indigenous people within the

1:18.5

official negotiations.

1:20.3

We'll hear more about that in 15 minutes.

1:23.1

But first, 10 Democratic Secretaries of State have written a letter to the Department of Justice and the

1:29.8

Department of Homeland Security with concerns about how the Trump administration is using

1:34.5

voter information. The federal government reportedly told the publication State Line that

1:40.7

the purpose of the information sharing is to, quote, scrub aliens from voter rolls.

1:46.9

But non-citizen voting is extremely rare.

1:50.8

Some states did not hand over that data.

1:54.2

And for more on their concerns, we called up Adrian Fantes, the Secretary of State for Arizona.

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He spoke to Robin Young.

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So what kind of data was requested and what did you think it was for?

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