At least 17 Republican-led states provide or agree to provide voter data to Justice Department

At a December 4, 2025 hearing, DOJ Voting Section Chief Eric Neff said 11 states had expressed a willingness to comply with the DOJ's demands for voter data based on a proposed memorandum of understanding. Those states were Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Four states—Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, and Wyoming—had already complied by that time. As of February 2026, only Alaska and Texas had signed the memorandum of understanding. At least 10 states—home to over 37 million registered voters—had provided their full voter lists to the federal government. The DOJ proposed a confidential memorandum of understanding that would give states 45 days to fix any problems the DOJ found in their voter rolls. The agreement shows the DOJ's plans to interfere with states' authority to run elections and how dangerously insecure the sensitive data would be in the department's hands.