{"id":40622,"date":"2025-09-05T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/gov-mcmaster-intervenes-in-sc-voter-data-lawsuit-doj-pushes-for-access-by-federal-deadline\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:00:02","slug":"gov-mcmaster-intervenes-in-sc-voter-data-lawsuit-doj-pushes-for-access-by-federal-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/gov-mcmaster-intervenes-in-sc-voter-data-lawsuit-doj-pushes-for-access-by-federal-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. McMaster Intervenes in SC Voter Data Lawsuit | DOJ Pushes for Access by Federal Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1cRxS4dsCe8?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit over a federal request for state voter list data.<\/p>\n<p>The legal dispute began after the U.S. Department of Justice requested voter information from the South Carolina Election Commission with a deadline initially set for August 21 and now extended to tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A Calhoun County woman has filed a lawsuit to block the handover, arguing the DOJ\u2019s request violates state privacy laws. Governor McMaster disagrees, stating her complaint overlooks key federal statutes that permit such access under specific conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The State Election Commission recently met with DOJ officials and is preparing a memo to outline how voter data may be shared legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit over a federal request<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}