EXCLUSIVE: RNC Election Integrity Unit Probes States To Keep Voter Rolls Clean

The Republican National Committee is requesting all states provide the party information on how it maintains and cleans up its voter rolls, as a part of its latest election integrity initiative, the Daily Caller learned first.

The RNC’s election integrity unit is launching one of its largest ever records requests on Tuesday, sending requests for records to 48 state election officers and the city of Washington, D.C., an official shared with the Caller. The party is requesting that the states share all documents pertaining to how they maintain their voter registration lists, a hot issue that popped up towards the end of the 2024 presidential cycle. (RELATED: Watch The Daily Caller’s Documentary ‘Rigged’)

By requesting the information, the RNC is trying to confirm that only eligible voters are registered to vote in their respective states across the country, an official told the Caller. The party is also requesting documents related to how each state removes voters who are no longer eligible, like non-citizens, criminals or those who have died.

“The RNC is once again taking action to make our elections more secure. Voters have a right to know that their states are properly maintaining voter rolls and quickly acting to clean voter registration lists by removing ineligible voters. If states unlawfully block our requests, or if we discover that states have failed to accurately maintain their voter rolls, the RNC stands ready to act,” chairman Michael Whatley told the Caller.

Under the National Voter Registration Act and state specific public records laws, states are required to  maintain and provide records to the public on how they are maintaining accurate lists of registered voters. The party did not request documents from Maryland and North Dakota, who do not have former voter registration processes.

Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Whatley shakes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s hand during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. The annual four day conference geared toward energizing and connecting conservative youth hosts some of the country’s leading conservative politicians and activists. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

During the 2024 election, some states made an effort to clean up their voter rolls but the Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued them to stop. After Secretary of State Wes Allen identified 3,251 registered voters on Alabama’s voter rolls that had been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, the DOJ alleged that it was too close to election day for the state to make sure a move. A similar situation occurred in Virginia. (RELATED: Democrats Fight To Make Elections Less Trustworthy)

Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the RNC filed more than 100 election integrity lawsuits across 20 states, according to the party’s website. Though it is an off-election year, the RNC is moving forward with its legal efforts, including building its staff and investigating matters that take more time, an official previously told the Caller.

“Just because the election happened and President Trump won doesn’t mean we stopped or we’ve accomplished some sort of goal or that we’ve reached the finish line — because we haven’t,” the official told the Caller.

Having really built up its election integrity department over the last presidential cycle, the party is positioned to make progress leading up to the 2026 midterms. Voter list maintenance is a priority for the party in the off years, the official previously explained.

“As we continue, we’re going to leverage all of those advantages to do more of what we did, which was build an amazing field program around this — which is the volunteer side, which is poll workers and poll watchers … and the volunteer attorneys,” the RNC official told the Caller. “We’re also going to continue our legal efforts. We are looking at new cases too.”