Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has once again rejected a request from the Department of Justice for detailed information about voters in Maine.

The DOJ has requested voter information from roughly two dozen states as part of what the department says is an effort to protect election integrity by ensuring proper maintenance of voter rolls. Those requests were rejected by election officials in multiple states, including Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

On Monday, Bellows formally rejected a second, expanded request from the Trump administration.

“This request raises some of the same issues regarding the privacy of the voters files,” Bellows said in an interview. “Federal law under the constitution doesn’t envision that DOJ can get anything on anybody just because

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