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Wisconsin already makes much of its voter file public. What it does not publicly disclose — and what the DOJ is demanding — are the most sensitive fields in the database. That includes personal identifiers such as birthdates, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

(2/4) Instead of leading with sober legal analysis, the 27-page brief opened with a quote from a “self-help” author that implied defending voters’ privacy is an admission of guilt:

(3/4) It then portrays the state’s refusal to hand over the sensitive data as the modern equivalent of how Southern states attempted to prevent Black people from voting during the Jim Crow era:

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