Overview
- The Justice Department filed an emergency motion at the Sixth Circuit to obtain Michigan’s full voter registration files before November, citing election security urgency.
- The filing drew attention for misspelling common words such as “votors,” “emeregency,” and “United Staes,” and for listing a non-party in the case caption.
- The appeal follows a federal judge’s dismissal of the department’s earlier bid for Michigan’s rolls, with the broader effort now expanded to 29 states and Washington, D.C.
- Democracy Docket reports the administration has lost three related cases and had another dismissed without prejudice, as several states resist on privacy and legal grounds.
- Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt publicly refused to cooperate, and a 2025 Michigan audit identified only 16 suspected noncitizen registrations out of about 7.2 million, indicating such cases are exceedingly rare.