News Release

Statement from Secretary of State Jena Griswold on DOJ Request for Sensitive Voter Information

Denver, December 3, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has contacted the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office seeking for the state to enter an agreement to share sensitive, unredacted voter information. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has issued the following statement:

“We will not comply with the Trump Department of Justice’s request for Coloradans’ sensitive voting information. The DOJ can take a hike; it does not have a legal right to the information. Colorado will not help Donald Trump undermine our elections and hurt the American people.”

On Monday, December 1, 2025, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. DOJ contacted the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office to ask the Office to enter into an agreement to share unredacted voter data, including a voter’s full name, date of birth, residential address, and complete state driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

This outreach follows a May 12, 2025 broad request from the DOJ, to which the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office shared publicly-available data consistent with applicable law. It also follows the November 18, 2025 letter sent to the DOJ and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by 10 Secretaries of State seeking information on DOJ and DHS’s collection and use of state voter roll data and whether the DOJ and DHS misled state officials. Neither the DOJ nor DHS replied to the questions in that letter.

The DOJ has already sued at least 14 states on the basis that they have refused to produce their statewide voter registration information or failed to provide information regarding their voter list maintenance procedures.