United States v. Evans

The ACLU has filed a motion to intervene as Defendants in a suit brought by the Department of Justice against the District of Columbia’s Board of Elections, which has refused to turn over voter file information except as required by law. The motion to intervene was filed on behalf of Common Cause and two eligible, registered D.C. voters, one of whom is a naturalized citizen who is at particular risk of being targeted through aggressive voter purges that could mistakenly remove eligible voters from voter rolls. Concerns over such voter purges and unsubstantiated mass voter challenges and misuse of sensitive personal information have heightened the concerns of civil rights groups like Common Cause.

If intervention is granted, the civil rights group and the individual voters will seek to prevent the federal government from forcing D.C. to turn over the entirety of its voter registration database and to protect sensitive data within the voter rolls.