December 18, 2025
DOJ quietly offered states secret deals to purge voter rolls
The DOJ privately offered to purge voters from unverified federal lists — with no public notice required
🗳️Elections✊Civil Rights📜Constitutional Law🏛️Government
The DOJ sent confidential memoranda of understanding (MOUs) to more than a dozen states in late 2025 offering to identify ineligible voters using SAVE, SSA death records, and DHS databases
Eleven Republican-led states expressed interest: Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia
States accepting the MOU would be required to remove flagged voters within 45 days — bypassing the NVRA 90-day quiet period and standard notice-and-waiting procedures
Colorado and Wisconsin publicly rejected the deal and released the draft agreement text, triggering DOJ lawsuits against both states
The SAVE database cannot confirm citizenship for naturalized citizens who lack a USCIS certificate, people with acquired citizenship, or U.S.-born individuals not in SSA records
Kris Kobach Interstate Crosscheck program, the previous major federal purge effort, produced false positives more than 99% of the time before being shut down after security breaches
🗳️Elections✊Civil Rights📜Constitutional Law🏛️Government
People, bills, and sources
Eric Neff
Acting Chief, DOJ Voting Section
Pam Bondi
U.S
Kris Kobach
Former Kansas Secretary of State, architect of Interstate Crosscheck
Wisconsin Elections Commission
State election authority
Senators Alex Padilla and Dick Durbin
U.S