With the 2026 midterm vote just completed, a conservative-backed nonprofit has stepped up its campaign to urge Utah’s top election officer to hand over the state’s voter rolls so the group can post them online.

The Voter Reference Foundation filed a lawsuit in federal court in Utah on Friday, demanding that Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson turn over the name and birth year of every registered voter in the state — in compliance, the group says, with the National Voter Registration Act.

In its lawsuit, VRF says it first requested Utah’s voter rolls in February, but that Henderson’s office has so far refused to provide them. The office, which oversees elections in Utah, has argued that Utah law prohibits releasing voters’ birth years — and mandates that those requesting the records not post them online.

VRF has argued with Henderson’s office since February that federal law supersedes state law, and that the lieutenant governor cannot place such restrictions.

Henderson’s office confirmed that it was served with the complaint Monday and said in a statement that officials “are looking it over.” Attorneys for VRF did not respond to a request for comment Monday.

According to emails exchanged between the lieutenant governor’s office and VRF’s attorneys, which were attached to the lawsuit, the group warned Henderson’s office that it would sue if the office didn’t comply with its records request.

In the suit, VRF is asking a judge to order Henderson’s office to hand over the state’s official statewide voter list and keep the state from enforcing its ban on posting those records online.

VRF identifies itself as “a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing voter participation in elections while protecting election integrity.” To do this, the group says in the lawsuit, “VRF requests, analyzes, and publishes the official statewide voter list of each state.”

The group asserts it’s done this with voter data in 35 states and the District of Columbia, all published on the group’s website. A cursory review of the site found it includes voters’ names; street addresses; which congressional and legislative districts the voters live in; when they first registered to vote; and whether they voted in the most recent election.

The site does not list who a person voted for. It also does not list, as the lawsuit notes, a voter’s Social Security number, state ID number, phone number or email address.

The Voter Reference Foundation refers to itself in the lawsuit as an affiliate of Restoration of America, which identifies itself on its website as “the umbrella name for a family of conservative organizations.”

The news outlet ProPublica reported in 2022 that Restoration for America and a related super PAC are “predominantly funded” by billionaire Richard Uihlein, founder of the packaging supply company Uline and a “major” supporter of President Donald Trump.

ProPublica wrote that VRF’s efforts were “an important indication of how some influential and well-funded Republicans across the country plan to encourage crowdsourcing of voter rolls to find what they consider errors and anomalies, then dispute voter registrations of specific individuals.”