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California is not required to turn over its full voter registration list to the federal government, after a federal judge on Thursday granted a motion to dismiss a Department of Justice lawsuit filed last September. In his ruling, district judge David O. Carter said he was unpersuaded by the DOJ’s attempts to use provisions of the Help America Vote Act and the Civil Rights Act to force the state to share entire unredacted voter rolls containing the sensitive personal information of millions of residents. Carter said the DOJ’s attempt to use Title III of the Civil Rights Act, which was passed in the Jim Crow era in response to efforts to suppress Black Americans from voting, “lacked depth” and was “contrived.” Collin Wood, Statescoop.
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The Election Security Exchange Launches
Exchange aims to strengthen election cyber, physical and operational security
By Andrea Byrne, Election Security Exchange
Election administrators have been living through a new era of security expectations for more than a decade. Cyber threats and physical security risks – ranging from ransomware and DDoS attacks to facility intrusions and evolving
protest dynamics – have made election offices and their technology partners high-value targets.
At the same time, election professionals face a parallel challenge: separating signal from noise and quickly finding trustworthy resources.
The Election Security Exchange has come together to meet that need – not as an emergency-response organization, but as a dedicated, nonpartisan information-sharing and educational hub focused on providing publicly available cybersecurity and physical security resources tailored to the election environment and on stimulating collaboration between security experts and election officials.
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