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华盛顿讯——美国司法部周四在从二十多个州获取敏感选民信息的行动中遭遇第七起和第八起败诉，联邦法官驳回了司法部要求获取缅因州和威斯康星州选民名册的诉讼。
在缅因州案件中，美国首席地区法官兰斯·沃克批准了驳回司法部诉讼的请求，该诉讼试图迫使州政府官员交出缅因州完整的选民登记名单，其中包括出生日期、驾照号码和部分社保号码。
沃克是第七位驳回特朗普政府获取各州选民名册行动的法官。但美国地区法官詹姆斯·彼得森很快成为第八位，他同意驳回司法部针对威斯康星州获取选民信息的诉讼。
司法部试图获取亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、密歇根州、俄勒冈州和罗得岛州选民登记名单的行动也均告失败。
在长达22页的判决书中，由特朗普首任任期内任命的沃克写道，司法部无权强制获取缅因州的选民名册。他驳回了政府声称《民权法案》以及两项选举法案——《帮助美国投票法》和《全国选民登记法》要求该州将选民名册移交给司法部的主张。
沃克表示，上述选举法案“并未考虑向司法部长提交未经编辑的电子化名单，以便他能够监督州选举官员并指出并要求纠正名单中的不准确之处”。
《帮助美国投票法》和《全国选民登记法》要求各州维护准确且最新的全州电子化选民登记名单。
该法官还表示，将《民权法案》解释为“隐含赋予美国政府随时获取每一份全州选民登记名单的权利，以便对州政府遵守《帮助美国投票法》和《全国选民登记法》的情况进行全面、逐行审计”，这将“彻底破坏国会最初要求各州创建并维护在册选民电子化名单时所确立的权力平衡”。
司法部去年首次向缅因州和威斯康星州索要选民登记名单，以核实其是否遵守《帮助美国投票法》和《全国选民登记法》。
但在两州官员拒绝提供未经编辑版本的选民名册后，特朗普政府提起诉讼，指控这两州违反了上述两项选举法案以及《民权法案》的一项条款。在州政府官员拒绝移交选民名册后，司法部总共已对30个州和哥伦比亚特区提起诉讼。
在驳回针对缅因州的司法部诉讼时，沃克写道，如果接受政府对民权法案的解释，他将不得不“对传统的联邦制原则以及这些原则如何在美国选举中体现——也就是国会制定《全国选民登记法》和《帮助美国投票法》的背景——视而不见”。
在威斯康星州案件中，由前总统巴拉克·奥巴马任命的彼得森表示，选民登记名单并非必须根据《民权法案》提交的文件。
司法部获取各州选民名册的行动似乎是特朗普计划加强联邦对选举控制的一部分。这位总统曾多次声称美国选举存在广泛舞弊，但未提供任何证据。
7th and 8th judges rebuff Justice Department’s attempts to get voter rolls, this time from Maine and Wisconsin
May 21, 2026 / 3:19 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The Justice Department on Thursday suffered its seventh and eighth losses in its efforts to obtain sensitive voter information from more than two dozen states, with federal judges dismissing its lawsuits seeking access to Maine’s and Wisconsin’s voter rolls.
In the Maine case, Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker granted requests to toss out the Justice Department’s suit, which sought to force state officials to hand over Maine’s complete voter registration list, including birth dates, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
Walker was the seventh judge to reject the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain states’ voter rolls. But U.S. District Judge James Peterson soon became the eighth when he agreed to dismiss the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking voter information from Wisconsin.
Attempts to secure voter registration lists from Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island have also been unsuccessful.
In his 22-page decision, Walker, who was appointed by President Trump in his first term, wrote that the Justice Department cannot compel access to Maine’s voter rolls. He rejected the administration’s claim that the Civil Rights Act and two voting laws, the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act, required the state to turn over its voter rolls to the Justice Department.
The voting laws, Walker said, “do not contemplate production of the unredacted computerized list to the Attorney General so that he might loom over the shoulder of the state election official to point out and demand the correction of inaccuracies in the list.”
The Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act require states to maintain computerized statewide voter registration lists that are accurate and current.
The judge also said that construing the Civil Rights Act “to implicitly provide the United States a right to every [statewide voter registration list] on demand for purposes of conducting a comprehensive, line-by-line audit of the state’s compliance with HAVA and the NVRA would take a sledgehammer to the balance Congress struck when it required states to create and maintain computerized lists of registered voters in the first place.”
The Justice Department first sought a copy of Maine and Wisconsin’s voter registration lists last year to ensure compliance with the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act.
But after officials from the two states refused to share unredacted versions of their voter rolls, the Trump administration sued, alleging violations of the two voting laws and a provision of the Civil Rights Act. The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against 30 states in all and the District of Columbia after state officials declined to turn over their voter rolls.
In dismissing the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Maine, Walker wrote that accepting the government’s interpretation of the civil rights law would require him to “turn a blind eye to traditional principles of federalism and how those principles have found expression in American elections — the backdrop against which Congress enacted the NVRA and HAVA.”
In the Wisconsin case, Peterson, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said that voter registration lists are not documents that must be produced under the Civil Rights Act.
The attempts to secure states’ voter rolls appear to be part of Mr. Trump’s plan to assert more federal control over elections. The president has repeatedly raised allegations of widespread fraud in U.S. elections, though without offering any evidence.
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