Alaska Officials Sued for Turning Voter Rolls Over to DOJ

Voting-rights groups sued Alaska officials over their decision to turn voter rolls over to the Justice Department.

The lawsuit is the latest in a spate of them against and by the Trump administration over its quest for voter roll access following the president’s and his allies’ baseless voter fraud claims. Advocates fear the administration’s actions could mean that eligible voters can’t cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections and beyond.

The actions of Alaska, which is one of several Republican-led states to hand over voter registration information to the Trump administration following requests made last year, violated residents’ constitutional privacy and voting rights, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court.

The League of Women Voters of Alaska and the Alaska Black Caucus named Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R), who runs elections in the state, and her elections director, Carol Beecher, as defendants.

They want a judge to declare unlawful Alaska’s agreement with the DOJ to share voter rolls—complete with unredacted personal information—and remove certain voters from it at the department’s behest for publicly unknown reasons, and for the judge to require state officials “to make reasonable efforts” to ensure the Trump administration destroys hard and electronic copies of Alaska’s rolls.

The administration has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for not turning over its voter rolls, according to the lawsuit and a database maintained by the University of Wisconsin Law School. Other Republican states have complied with the administration’s demand.

Watchdog group Common Cause also sued the DOJ in federal court in Washington, DC earlier this week over the federal government’s amassing of state voter data.

“By handing over unredacted voter data and participating in a federal power grab that could trigger improper voter roll purges, the state has put both privacy and democracy at serious risk,” Theresa J. Lee, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a news release announcing the Alaska lawsuit.

An email sent to the Alaska’s elections division wasn’t immediately returned.

The groups are represented by the ACLU of Alaska Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

The case is League of Women Voters of Alaska v. Dahlstrom, Alaska Super. Ct., No. 3AN-26-06319CI, complaint filed 4/22/26.