League of Women Voters of Alaska v. Nancy Dahlstrom

In August 2025, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to Alaska’s Division of Elections requesting the state’s full, unredacted voter file. In December 2025, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Nancy Dahlstrom, who supervises the state’s Division of Elections, agreed to provide the DOJ with the state’s full, unredacted voter file. The Director of the Division of Elections Carol Beecher executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the DOJ, agreeing to the methods of data transfer and data management for the state’s complete voter file.

The DOJ’s MOU with the state appears to be part of federal efforts to create a national voter database, to engage in mass challenges of voter registrations. These voter purges could mistakenly result in eligible voters being removed from the rolls and pose risks to certain groups, such as naturalized citizens.

The League of Women Voters of Alaska—a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots group dedicated to ensuring access to the ballot—along with the Alaska Black Caucus and the Alaska Public Interest Group, filed a complaint on April 22, 2026 in Alaska state court, to void the MOU and require the Lieutenant Governor and the Director of the Division of Elections to take steps to ensure the destruction of the unredacted voter data shared with the DOJ. These organizations are represented by the ACLU Voting Rights Project, the ACLU of Alaska, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.