nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor3|||South Dakota Is Sharing Driver’s License Info To Help Find Out Who’s A Citizen||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||To produce citizenship data that can be used when voting districts are redrawn, the Trump administration asked states to share their records. South Dakota agreed to do so in April, NPR has learned.

South Dakota has agreed to share driver’s license and state ID records with the Census Bureau as part of efforts to carry out the executive order for citizenship data that President Trump announced last July with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (left) and U.S. Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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South Dakota Is Sharing Driver’s License Info To Help Find Out Who’s A Citizen

To produce citizenship data that can be used when voting districts are redrawn, the Trump administration asked states to share their records. South Dakota agreed to do so in April, NPR has learned.