PORTLAND, Ore. — The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that it has filed lawsuits against the states of Oregon and Maine after their respective secretaries of state refused to hand over voter data at the Justice Department's request.

The DOJ alleges that Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows violated the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

Oregon refused to produce a current unredacted electronic copy of the state's voter registration list, information on the state's voter list maintenance program and would not disclose registration information for any ineligible voters, the DOJ alleges.

The DOJ said that Maine refused to provide data regarding the removal of ineligible voters

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