Two Kentucky voters who are naturalized citizens and voting rights groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky hope to intervene in a case between the state and the U.S. Department of Justice over sharing sensitive voter data.  ACLU-KY filed a motion to intervene in the D OJ’s case against state election officials on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, the New Americans Initiative and the voters Monday. Last week, the DOJ sued Kentucky and four other states in federal court to gain access to voter registration data, including sensitive information such as driver’s license and Social Security numbers. “The Department of Justice’s demand for unredacted voter files has no legal basis and would put Kentuckians’ private data at risk,” said Corey Shapiro, legal director for ACLU-KY in a press release. “This is a blatant attempt to disenfranchise certain voters and hoard sensitive data for partisan purposes. The ACLU of Kentucky will continue to fight for the privacy and voting rights of all Kentuckians.”   With the latest round of lawsuits, the DOJ has cases against 29 states and the District of Columbia for voter information and has said it would use it to ensure clean voting rolls in the states. The Kentucky case is in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Kentucky.  Under the second Trump administration, DOJ officials began asking states for voter information last year. The DOJ has since shared voter roll information with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to search for noncitizens. Homeland Security is building out a powerful citizenship verification program and touting it as a way to ensure election integrity. The motion to intervene highlights public reporting about the citizenship verification program and argues that the voters and voting rights advocates have standing to intervene in the case. It says that “the data DOJ seeks is likely to be used to challenge the voter registration of certain Kentuckians,” including voters who are naturalized citizens, have previous felony convictions, have moved out of state or who have moved back to Kentucky. The post On behalf of voters and advocates, ACLU asks to intervene in DOJ case for Kentucky voter data appeared first on The Lexington Times. ...read more read less