Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (52 U.S.C. § 20701) requires state and local election officials to retain and preserve election records for 22 months and to make those records available to the Attorney General for inspection and reproduction upon request. The DOJ has invoked Title III alongside the NVRA in its 2025-2026 campaign to compel states to disclose voter registration databases. Unlike the NVRA's public inspection provision, Title III creates a direct federal right to demand records from election officials, which the DOJ argues includes voter registration data with sensitive identification fields like partial Social Security numbers. States challenging the DOJ's demands argue that Title III was designed for records of specific elections — not wholesale access to voter databases — and that privacy laws limit which personal information must be disclosed.