The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project is suing for records from the state of Minnesota over a voter roll maintenance program, after official requests went unanswered.
Shortly after the Justice Department objected to, and a federal judge blocked Virginia from removing thousands of ineligible voters from its rolls, a conservative good-government group announced a lawsuit to compel document production from a similar case in the home state of Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
The letter said the state completed a manual review of 103,986 records on Sept. 10 and that 1,485 records 'that should not have been sent… to be registered through AVR.' 'This is either because their documentation was unreadable due to poor scanning quality, missing required information, mislabel as citizenship-affirming when it was not or unable to be validated for other reasons.
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