The Trump administration is asking Oregon to turn over elections data — some of it sensitive — and to prove the state is doing enough to ensure ineligible people don’t vote.

In a pair of requests sent to Secretary of State Tobias Read in July, the U.S. Department of Justice asked for a wide range of information, from details of people who’ve been deemed ineligible to vote to a roster of state elections officials.

The inquiries are the latest sign of federal interest in how Oregon elections are carried out. They came as the Trump administration made similar demands in states across the country, in what federal officials described as an effort to battle voter fraud.

The overtures haven’t been well received in Oregon. Read, a Democrat who is the state’s top elections official, has alread

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