Diego Mendoza-Moyers reports for the Albany Times Union several civil rights and voter advocacy groups filed a lawsuit July 29 to block efforts by Rensselaer County Republican leaders to share county voter registration information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The New York Immigration Coalition, Community Voices Heard, Common Cause/New York, Citizen Action of New York, the League of Women Voters of the United States, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and Rensselaer County resident Jenifer Benn filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The lawsuit comes after Republicans, reacting to a new state law allowing undocumented migrants to apply for driver licenses, retaliated by saying they would forego privacy concerns and turn over voter registration information to federal immigration officials. "Let's get the facts straight: non-citizens can not register to vote at the DMV or anywhere else in New York state," Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, said in a statement. "The County Executive's threat to turn over the voting rolls to ICE is designed to fearmonger against immigrants and needlessly alarm and confuse eligible potential voters." Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.