DNC Litigation Director Dan Freeman took to the airwaves this week to highlight the DNC’s recent letters to ten states’ Board of Elections or Secretary of State offices urging them to reject pressure from the Trump DOJ to hand over sensitive, unredacted voter files. Freeman made it clear that the DNC stands ready to use all tools at our disposal to protect the rights of voters. 

Take a look at some of the coverage below: 

KMIZ: “The DNC is asking the Missouri Secretary of State to not sign an agreement with the Department of Justice. The DNC says it would require the state to remove voters it decides from the registration roll within 45 days of the DOJ’s request. The DNC says this agreement would violate voter laws by shortening the amount of time it takes to remove a voter from that list. The group says it will challenge the agreement in court if Missouri signs it. ‘We’re also letting them know that if they start purging voters illegally, we have their eyes on them. We’re asking for the information that we would need to bring a lawsuit, and we will be ready if they start violating voters’ rights.”

KXAN: “Democratic National Committee and former DOJ attorney Daniel Freeman says that would violate provisions of the National Voter Registration Act that give voters suspected of moving two full election cycles before kicking them off the rolls and prevents voter roll purges within 90 days of a federal election. ‘The reason for that is if there’s a mistake, as long as you’re far enough out from an election, you have a chance to re-register, but if that mistake is made too close to the election, someone might not find out.’”

KOTA: “South Dakota was one of 10 states to receive letters from the DNC over concerns that the states were in talks to hand over their voter rolls to the Department of Justice so federal officials could look for errors. The DNC has two primary concerns with their proposed agreement by the Trump administration. Both center on the proposal that states would remove voters from the rolls within 45 days of being notified of errors by the DOJ. ‘The problem is there’s a provision of the National Voter Registration Act that requires notice in a waiting period if someone is potentially ineligible because they moved, right. Sometimes those data are not quite right. Sometimes someone has a temporary change of address. They get posted off to a base somewhere else. They want to get their mail forwarded, but they still consider South Dakota their homes.’”

KXAS: “‘The problem here is really that the federal government has no authority under the United States Constitution to be telling states these are the qualifications to vote. That’s a state right.’ Daniel Freeman from the Democratic National Committee sent this letter to state officials and is watching the situation in Texas to make sure eligible voters are not taken off the list as well. He tells me, at times, there can be confusion and fixable issues before voting deadlines. ‘And Texas also knows that these database matches. They can have mistakes. The state settled a lawsuit in 2019 when it misidentified 10s of 1000s of United States citizens as being non-citizens.’”