Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters’ data

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A federal request to hand over sensitive information from millions of South Carolina voters is now on hold.

Late Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein issued a temporary restraining order resulting from a new lawsuit challenging whether the South Carolina Election Commission will give voters’ data to the Department of Justice.

Earlier this summer, the DOJ told South Carolina to turn over the information of the more than 3.3 million people registered to vote in the state, including their names, addresses, birthdates, driver’s license numbers and last four digits of their Social Security Numbers. Other states received similar requests.

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The State Election Commission has not done that yet, following a back-and-forth with the