California county elections chief maintains he followed law with Justice Department’s request for non

Orange County Registrar of Voters Bob Page would have violated state and federal law if he had turned over sensitive personal information of voter registrants to the Department of Justice without a subpoena or court order, attorneys said in response to the federal government’s recent lawsuit.

The Justice Department sued Page last month for allegedly not providing full records related to the removal of non-citizens from voter registration lists. The Justice Department alleged that Page did not maintain an accurate voter list in violation of the Help America Vote Act, a 2002 law that made sweeping reforms to the country’s voting process.

But Page, through the county counsel’s response filed last week, denied those allegations.

The issue stems from information requested by the Justice Depa