A South Carolina judge has blocked the state’s top election agency from handing over its full voter registration list to the U.S. Department of Justice, siding with a Calhoun County voter who said releasing her driver’s license number and partial Social Security number would violate her constitutional rights.

The restraining order, issued Sept. 2 by Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein, prevents the S.C. Election Commission from distributing the statewide voter list of more than three million people until at least Sept. 10 when a hearing is scheduled in Aiken County.

The ruling could disrupt a Sept. 5 deadline the DOJ had imposed for South Carolina to comply.

It also adds a new twist to a months-long back-and-forth between the Election Commission and the Justice Department that has been unfo

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