United States v. Pennsylvania, et al.

  • Filed: October 9, 2025
  • Status: Filed
  • Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  • Latest Update: Oct 09, 2025
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The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Public Interest Law Center, and ACLU’s Voting Rights Project have filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit over the federal government’s demand that Pennsylvania turn over its entire voter registration rolls, including with voters’ sensitive personal data such as drivers’ license numbers and partial social security numbers.

The motion to intervene was filed on behalf of seven Pennsylvania voters, many of whom were the target of baseless mass challenges to their mail ballots during the 2024 election cycle that resulted from faulty data-matching techniques. The voters’ experiences have heightened their concerns about the privacy of their voting data. Other plaintiffs are two non-partisan, good government organizations dedicated to voter engagement: the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and Common Cause.

If intervention is granted, the civil rights groups will seek to prevent the federal government from forcing Pennsylvania to turn over the entirety of its voter registration database and to protect sensitive data within the voter rolls.

Attorney(s):
Witold Walczak and Kate Steiker-Ginzberg of the ACLU of Pennsylvania; Ben Geffen, Mimi McKenzie and Olivia Mania of the Public Interest Law Center; Ari Savitzky, Theresa Lee, Sophia Lin Lakin of ACLU’s Voting Rights Project

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