WASHINGTON (KPTV) – The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits Monday against Oregon and Maine, accusing the states of refusing to turn over voter registration data and information about how they maintain their voter rolls.

The suit targets Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. The department says both states violated federal voting laws by declining to provide unredacted copies of their statewide voter registration lists and details on how they remove ineligible voters.

“States simply cannot pick and choose which federal laws they will comply with, including our voting laws,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet k. Dhillon said in a statement. She added that citizens should feel confident in the fairness of elections and that states that refuse

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