Madison - A company that sells voter information has sued the state Elections Board under the public records law for refusing to turn over a copy of its new voter database.

Wisconsin Voter Lists said in its suit filed Friday that the board violated the state's open records law by refusing to turn over a copy of the voter file in January. The Elections Board maintains it does not have to turn over the database because it is not complete and has errors in it.

Board spokesman Kyle Richmond said Tuesday that the state would comply with a more limited request the company made on Monday.

The board is putting together the first-ever statewide voter database because of a 2002 federal law. The new database was supposed to be done by Jan. 1 but is not expected to be done until after the November election.

So far, the database includes information about voters in 21 of Wisconsin's 72 counties.

Wisconsin Voter Lists asked for a copy of the database in December, but the Elections Board said in January that it couldn't have it because the database is not finished and that much of the information it collected was inaccurate. The company, which sells voter lists to political parties and candidates, contends the state's open records law requires that the database be furnished in its current form.