The U.S. Justice Department sued six more states, including New Hampshire, on Thursday, saying the states are illegally blocking the agency's wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter data in a brewing court fight over what states say is the private, protected information of residents.

The Justice Department also accused the states of failing to respond sufficiently to questions about the procedures they take to maintain voter rolls as states called the department's request for voters' personal information unprecedented and illegal, and vowed to fight it.

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The department's newest lawsuits targeted California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania after it sued Oregon and Maine l

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