President Trump's Department of Justice is engaged in a tug-of-war with the State of Illinois' election authorities.

The Illinois State Board of Elections is reviewing a request from the Department of Justice to get access to all the state's sensitive voter data, something that has legal experts confused and worried.

So far, Illinois officials have resisted the federal government's request.

What we know:

In a letter dated Aug. 14, the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division asked Illinois Election Board Executive Director Sarah Matthews for sensitive data on Illinois voters.

The data includes "the registrant's full name, date of birth, residential address, his or her state driver's license number or the last four digits of the registrant's social security number as required under

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