Massachusetts Ordered to Provide Voter File to GOP Nonprofit

Massachusetts’ top election official must hand the state’s voter file over to a conservative-backed nonprofit that publishes the personal records online, a Boston federal judge said.

Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin had denied a Voter Reference Foundation’s request for a copy of the state’s voter database, which contains names, addresses and effective dates of registration for millions of voters, despite a federal law requiring the records be made “available for public inspection.”

The ruling Thursday by Chief US District Judge Denise J. Casper has the potential to complicate Galvin’s efforts to fend off a similar request for the voter ...