Justice Department asks Nebraska to hand over voter data
By Jessica Wade 
, Senior reporter
Sept. 17, 2025, 1:27 p.m. ·
The U.S. Department of Justice has called on Nebraska’s chief election officer to share the state’s unredacted voter registration data.
In a letter dated Sept. 8, the agency asked that Secretary of State Robert Evnen provide a copy of Nebraska’s statewide voter registration list, including names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.
Dozens of other states are known to have received similar requests from Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney who oversees the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. The agency cited the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act in those requests, asserting that the information is necessary to ensure states maintain accurate voter registration rolls.
In her letter to Evnen, Dhillon requested the information be provided within 14 days, designating a deadline of Sept. 22.
Whether Evnen and his office will comply remains to be seen. The letter was shared with the Nebraska Attorney General for “review and advice,” said Rani Taborek-Potter, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State.
“We will inform the U.S. Department of Justice that we have done so,” Taborek-Potter said, “and we will communicate with them further after we receive the Nebraska Attorney General’s advice.”
The attorney general's office declined to comment.
The letters are the latest effort by President Donald Trump and his administration to investigate past elections. In June, Trump called for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden, restating an unproven claim that the election was marred by widespread fraud.
Responses from states have varied. Some handed over their full unredacted voter registration lists, others gave partial information publicly available under state law and a few flat out refused.
In Nebraska, a list of registered voters is publicly accessible for a fee. Voters are able to request that their phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain private.