Secretary Raffensperger Continues Fight to Keep Georgians’ Social Security Numbers from Unknown Parties

Atlanta - The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office is continuing to uphold state law that prevents Georgia voters’ private information, including social security numbers, from being shared with unknown, outside parties. 

The Department of Justice requested Georgia voters’ full social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and dates of birth, with intention to share the data with an unnamed third party outside of the federal or state government. 

Despite a state law that prevents sensitive voter information from being shared with outside parties, a Senate Resolution has been filed calling for the office to blatantly break the law. 

“Our office has complied with Department of Justice’s request to the fullest extent of state law,” said an office spokesperson. “If the Senate wishes for our office to release every Georgia voter’s driver’s license number, date of birth, and social security number with no clear limits or supervision, they need to change the law they wrote and passed.” 

Senate Resolution 563, filed Tuesday, calls on the Secretary of State’s Office to release Georgians’ social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and dates of birth to the Department of Justice and an unknown third-party entity, a direct violation of Georgia law that protects the confidentiality of voters’ sensitive personal identifying information. 

“Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger swore an oath to uphold the law and act in the best interests of hardworking Georgians. He will not break the law, compromise private information, or risk identity theft for millions of voters. He’s going to do the right thing and urges Senators to do the same.”

The office transmitted all legally releasable records supporting its nation-leading voter list maintenance efforts, including its complete voter registration list and documentation of recent list maintenance actions, to the Department of Justice in December of 2025.

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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia received top rankings for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.