A federal judge has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on the state’s 23 million registered voters. The Trump administration's lawsuit was filed last year. It argued that California and other states were illegally blocking the federal government’s wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter data. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana said in Thursday's decision that the administration’s attempt to centralize the personal information would have a chilling effect on voter registration and threaten “the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy.”
