The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has filed suit against red-state Idaho for stonewalling federal demands for its complete, unredacted voter rolls.
This latest lawsuit pushes the nationwide total to 30 states plus the District of Columbia now facing federal litigation for defying the law and blocking efforts to scrub dead people, non-citizens, and duplicate registrations from the books.
As The Gateway Pundit has reported for months, this is the largest federal voter roll cleanup in American history, and the results from the 16 states that actually complied have been jaw-dropping.
Tens of thousands of non-citizens, including illegal aliens, sitting on the rolls ready to vote. Hundreds of thousands of dead registrants still listed as active. Dozens of confirmed cases of ineligible voters casting ballots in federal elections.
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon didn’t mince words in previous updates: “We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and duplicate registrations between states.”
Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane, a Republican running for reelection, decided to play games instead of handing over the full data. He provided a scrubbed version and cited “privacy concerns” and worries about data security.
According to a newly filed federal complaint, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is suing Idaho Secretary of State Philip McGrane after the state refused to hand over its full voter registration database.
The complaint, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, lays out a straightforward argument: federal law gives the Attorney General broad authority to access election-related records, and Idaho refused.
Under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, election officials are required to preserve and provide records related to voter registration and voting processes.
The DOJ says it formally requested Idaho’s statewide voter registration list (SVRL) back in September 2025 as part of an investigation into compliance with federal election laws, including the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Federal officials demanded complete data fields, including:
- Full names
- Dates of birth
- Residential addresses
- Driver’s license numbers or last four digits of Social Security numbers
Idaho officials initially appeared willing to comply.
- The Secretary of State’s office acknowledged DOJ authority
- Signed a file-sharing agreement
- Indicated readiness to provide the data
But by February 2026, the state reversed course, flatly refusing to turn over the records and claiming “no clear legal duty exists” to do so.
“Idaho law strictly governs the disclosure of voter information. In the absence of a clear legal requirement that Idaho provide a copy of its complete, unredacted voter list, and in light of my responsibility to protect Idahoans’ personal information, my office will not provide the requested data,” McGrane told the DOJ in February.
That refusal triggered the lawsuit.
In court filings, federal attorneys are requesting that a judge:
- Declare Idaho in violation of federal law
- Force the state to produce its full voter database
- Require compliance within five days of a court order
The fight for election integrity has now reached 30 states, with Idaho being the latest addition.
Earlier waves of enforcement largely focused on blue states, but more recent actions have begun targeting red states as well, including Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and now Idaho.
Here are the 30 states being sued, plus the District of Columbia:
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
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