The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has confirmed that the Department of Justice does not have the legal power to force the state of Michigan to share sensitive voter registration information.

美國第六巡迴上訴法院已確認，司法部沒有法律權力強迫密西根州分享敏感的選民登記資訊。

The legal battle began when the Justice Department demanded full voter lists, including birth dates, driver's license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers, from several states and the District of Columbia. The federal government asserted that this data was necessary to ensure states were following the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, claiming there were errors in the registration process. However, Michigan's Secretary of State and officials from thirty other regions argued that the government was overstepping its legal authority. They suggested that the administration wanted to create a national voter database or share information with the Department of Homeland Security to find non-citizen voters.

這場法律戰始於司法部要求數個州及哥倫比亞特區提供完整的選民名單，包括出生日期、駕駛執照號碼及部分社會安全號碼。聯邦政府聲稱這些數據對於確保各州遵守《國家選民登記法》及《幫助美國投票法》至關重要，並指稱登記過程中存在錯誤。然而，密西根州州務卿及其他三十個地區的官員則認為政府逾越了其法律權限。他們認為政府是想建立一個全國性的選民資料庫，或與國土安全部分享資訊以找出非公民選民。

In a 2-1 decision, the court supported a previous ruling, stating that the federal civil rights law used by the government does not allow for the collection of private voter data. The judges noted that while the law was created to help people exercise their right to vote, the government was trying to use it for the opposite purpose: identifying people who had not voted. This decision follows nine other district courts in states like California and Massachusetts that dismissed similar cases. Despite these losses, thirteen states, including Texas and Ohio, have already agreed to provide the requested documents.

法院在 2 比 1 的裁決中支持了先前的判決，指出政府所採用的聯邦民權法並不允許收集私人選民數據。法官指出，雖然該法旨在幫助人們行使投票權，但政府卻試圖將其用於相反的目的：識別未投票的人。此次裁決繼加州及馬薩諸塞州等州的九個地區法院駁回類似案件之後。儘管如此，包括德州及俄亥俄州在內的 13 個州已同意提供所要求的文件。

At the same time, other efforts by the administration to change election rules have faced legal problems. For example, a federal court in Massachusetts recently blocked executive orders that would have required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship and placed new conditions on federal funding for processing mail-in ballots after Election Day.

與此同時，政府嘗試更改選舉規則的其他努力也面臨法律問題。例如，馬薩諸塞州的一家聯邦法院最近攔截了部分行政命令，這些命令原要求選民提供公民身份證明文件，並對選舉日後處理郵寄選票的聯邦資金設定了新條件。

The federal government's attempts to collect sensitive voter data are still being blocked by the courts, although a small number of states continue to cooperate.

聯邦政府嘗試收集敏感選民數據的行為仍被法院攔截，儘管少數州份仍繼續配合。