Brad Raffensperger
Republican Secretary of State of Georgia since 2019.
Brad Raffensperger saw off the Justice Department's suit for Georgia's voter list on 30 September 2026, when a federal judge ruled that Georgia's privacy law lets his office withhold voters' birth dates and identity numbers.
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Kept confidential voter data under Georgia law
US Midterms 2026: Judge dismisses DOJ's Georgia voter suitBackground
Brad Raffensperger has been Georgia's Republican secretary of state since 2019. He is the named defendant in United States v. Raffensperger, the Justice Department's suit for the state's unredacted voter list, which a federal judge dismissed on 30 September 2026.
He won re-election in 2022 after beating three primary challengers, one of them endorsed by Donald Trump. He came to national attention after the 2020 election, when Trump asked him to 'find' enough votes to reverse Joe Biden's win in Georgia.
He launched a bid for governor on 17 September 2025 and finished third in the 19 May 2026 Republican primary with 15% of the vote. Burt Jones and Rick Jackson advanced to the runoff.
Raffensperger keeps Georgia's voter data private
The Justice Department sued Raffensperger on 23 January 2026 for Georgia's unredacted voter list. On 30 September Judge Victoria Marie Calvert dismissed the case without leave to amend, finding nothing in the 1960 civil rights statute that displaces the state's own confidentiality rules.
The result lets Georgia's Republican secretary of state keep confidential voter fields out of federal hands ahead of the 3 November election. Democracy Docket counts Georgia as the department's 26th straight defeat in its voter-roll suits. the Court's order also noted that his office already shares data with ERIC, the multi-state voter-list partnership, through one-way hashing.
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