Bogus Election Integrity Commission Wants States To Turn Over All Voter Data

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/kobach-demands-voter-roll-data-secretaries-of-state?utm_content=buffer7d51a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

President Trump’s dubious “election integrity” commission is stepping up its activity in a big way ahead of a first meeting scheduled for July: Kris Kobach (R-KS), the vice chair of the commission and architect of many laws making it more difficult to vote, sent letters Thursday to all 50 secretaries of state demanding they turn over all publicly-available data from their voter rolls.

The information Kobach requested of secretaries of state includes:

The full first and last names of all registrants, middle names or initials if available, addresses, dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information.

The commission’s self-described mission focuses heavily on voter fraud, despite the fact that study after study has found that voter fraud is an extremely rare occurrence. Though the group’s goals ostensibly include “preventing voter intimidation or disenfranchisement,” the officials tapped to lead the effort have a long history of promoting policies that disenfranchise many eligible voters.

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[NCjack]

1. Putin told #45 to get the voter data, and then forward to Russia for safe keeping.

[Freethinker65]

2. Where a data analytics company will do their thing

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Ummmm....Is this even legal?

Do they have this much power?


Social Security numbers????!!!

[L. Coyote]

4. Which means a FOIA request will make that info available to anyone who asks.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. No. Certain information is redactable under FOIA.

You can't FOIA someone's personnel record and get every last detail about his life.

[octoberlib]

5. Interstate crosscheck. Kobach is gonna purge the rolls of anybody with

an ethnic sounding name. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

[Snotcicles]

6. He wants them to make it easy for him to do a national purge. nt

[Meowmee]

7. This needs

To be fought in court asap. I hope they don't turn any info over.

[hedda_foil]

8. You're right. The Constitution clearly assigns elections to the states.

Of course Associate Justice, "Mr. Constitution" Gorsucks will probably find a way to justify the takeover, as will the rest of the Flying Monkeys for Freedom!

[Meowmee]

10. Unfortunately

That could happen😳 In which case states should defy the order.