New Hampshire is among six states sued in federal court Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists at the government's request.

The lawsuits were filed Thursday in the federal district courts of the six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

“Clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections,” said U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that obligation will see this Department of Justice in court.”

In August, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan rejected a second demand from the Justice Department f

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