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The League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the League of United Latin American Citizens have sued the Department of Homeland Security to stop it from assembling voter data across the states. Their complaint claims that such records exceed the agency’s statutory purpose and violate privacy protections enacted decades ago.
This litigation arises precisely when federal authorities seek to verify eligibility in an electorate swollen by decades of lax enforcement and administrative indifference. The plaintiffs treat the maintenance of accurate rolls as an illicit dragnet rather than the basic duty of a self-governing people.
Under the Constitution ratified in 1787, the several states and the federal government share responsibility to preserve the integrity of elections that determine who wields lawful authority. No clause grants private organizations standing to forbid the collection of information necessary to that end.
The governing principle is older still. A commonwealth must know its citizens and distinguish them from those who are not. Without accurate records of who may vote, the franchise itself becomes an instrument of those who would dissolve the historic nation into an undifferentiated mass.
Scripture and the Western legal tradition alike condemn false measures and hidden dealings in the public square. The same order that once required honest weights and measures now requires honest voter lists. Any statute invoked to obstruct that requirement stands in contradiction to the higher law of ordered liberty.
The plaintiffs act as agents of the managerial order that prefers administrative opacity to popular accountability. Their suit does not defend privacy; it defends the power to shape electoral outcomes beyond the reach of verification.
The faithful remnant must therefore support every constitutional measure to restore accurate rolls and to punish those who traffic in fraudulent registrations. They must also reject the false claim that national self-preservation violates privacy when the alternative is the quiet transfer of sovereignty to non-citizens and the dead.
Where litigation seeks to blind the republic to its own people, the response is renewed vigilance and the recovery of institutions capable of recording who belongs to the body politic. The alternative is continued dispossession under cover of law.
