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- 摘要
- 法官称司法部无权开展“钓鱼式调查”
- 司法部的类似请求在多个民主党领导的州均遭驳回
- 特朗普曾多次 falsely 声称自己2020年大选失利源于选举欺诈
4月17日（路透社）——一名联邦法官周五驳回了美国司法部的诉求，该部门曾试图迫使罗德岛州交出近75万登记选民的非公开数据，以便特朗普政府对这个民主党领导的州展开“选举诚信”调查。
美国地区法官玛丽·麦克尔罗伊在普罗维登斯作出的这一裁决，是司法部相关行动遭遇的最新一系列法律挫折——此前加州、马萨诸塞州、密歇根州和俄勒冈州的法官均驳回了司法部的类似请求。
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时任总统唐纳德·特朗普治下的司法部曾起诉30个州和哥伦比亚特区，要求获取包含驾照号码和社保号码后四位的未编辑选民档案，称此类数据是调查各州遵守联邦选举法情况所必需的。
麦克尔罗伊称，针对罗德岛州的这一请求“史无前例”，并认定司法部根据《全国选民登记法》或《帮助美国投票法》，无权“开展其在此寻求的那种钓鱼式调查”。
司法部未回应置评请求。
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共和党人特朗普长期以来一直 falsely 宣称，他在2020年大选中输给民主党总统乔·拜登是普遍选举欺诈所致。
司法部表示，其目标是确保各州维护准确的选民名单，并已利用手中的非公开选民登记数据识别重复登记和已故选民。
罗德岛州州务卿、民主党人格雷格·阿莫尔提出提供该州公开的选民登记名单副本，但拒绝提供未编辑的数据。此后，司法部于去年12月就此事向麦克尔罗伊提起诉讼。
司法部投票部门代理主管埃里克·内夫在3月26日的听证会上表示，特朗普政府希望获取这些信息，以确保罗德岛州的选民名单“干净”，并标记出应当被清除的人员。
他称，这一流程将包括与美国国土安全部共享数据，由该部门确认登记选民是否为美国公民。
司法部援引1960年《民权法案》的一项条款要求获取与投票相关的记录，麦克尔罗伊表示，该条款的初衷是允许政府侦测与投票相关的种族歧视。
她表示，尽管该法律并未将其适用范围限定在调查歧视方面，但司法部必须为其需要选民记录提供事实依据，而司法部在罗德岛州的案件中并未提供此类依据。
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Judge rejects US Justice Department effort to obtain Rhode Island’s voter data
2026-04-17 14:27:11 UTC / Reuters
By Nate Raymond
April 17, 2026 2:27 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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- Summary
- Judge says Justice Department lacks authority to conduct ‘fishing expedition’
- Similar Justice Department requests denied in multiple Democratic-led states
- Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed fraud was behind his 2020 election loss
April 17 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s bid to force Rhode Island to turn over non-public data on nearly 750,000 registered voters so the Trump administration could probe “election integrity” in the Democratic-led state.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Providence marked the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the Justice Department’s efforts after judges ruled against its similar requests in California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Oregon.
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The Justice Department under President Donald Trump had sued 30 states and the District of Columbia seeking unredacted voter files that contain their driver’s license numbers and last four digits of their Social Security numbers, saying such data is needed to probe their compliance with federal election laws.
McElroy called the request to Rhode Island “unprecedented” and concluded the department lacked authority under the National Voter Registration Act or the Help America Vote Act “to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here.”
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
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Trump, a Republican, has long pushed the false claim that his 2020 election defeat to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread voter fraud.
The Justice Department says it aims to ensure states maintain accurate voter lists and is already identifying duplicate and deceased voters using nonpublic voter registration data in its possession.
It filed the case before McElroy in December, after Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore, a Democrat, offered to provide a copy of the state’s publicly available voter registration list but declined to provide unredacted data.
Eric Neff, the acting chief of the Justice Department’s voting section, during a March 26 hearing said the Trump administration wanted that information to ensure Rhode Island’s voter list is “clean” and flag anyone who should be purged.
That process, he said, would include sharing data with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to have it confirm if registered voters are citizens.
The Justice Department relied on a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to demand the voting-related records, a legal authority that McElroy said was intended to allow the government to detect voting-related racial discrimination.
She said that while the law does not limit its application to examining discrimination, the department must provide a factual basis for why it needs voting records, which it did not give in Rhode Island’s case.
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Nia Williams
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