(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday that it had filed lawsuits against California, New York, and four other states for not providing their voter registration lists to the department.

“Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that obligation will see this Department of Justice in court,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.

Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania are the other states sued by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, according to the statement.

The Justice Department cited laws that it said allow the attorney general to demand statewide voter registration lists and to ensure that states have proper and effective voter regi

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