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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFORTY-ONE states have refused Kobach's request for voter information
Washington, DC (CNN)Forty-one states have refused the Trump administration's request for certain voter information, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.
State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation -- from altogether rejecting the request to expressing eagerness to supply information that is public.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which President Donald Trump created by executive order in May, sent a letter to all 50 states last Wednesday requesting a bevy of voter data, which he notes will eventually be made available to the public.
The order came months after Trump claimed without evidence that millions had voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. When states began to express concerns about the legality of his administration's efforts to investigate voter fraud, Trump called them out on Twitter on Saturday, questioning whether they were hiding something.
State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation -- from altogether rejecting the request to expressing eagerness to supply information that is public.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which President Donald Trump created by executive order in May, sent a letter to all 50 states last Wednesday requesting a bevy of voter data, which he notes will eventually be made available to the public.
The order came months after Trump claimed without evidence that millions had voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. When states began to express concerns about the legality of his administration's efforts to investigate voter fraud, Trump called them out on Twitter on Saturday, questioning whether they were hiding something.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/politics/kris-kobach-letter-voter-fraud-commission-information/index.html
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FORTY-ONE states have refused Kobach's request for voter information (Original Post)
spanone
Jul 2017
OP
Now that gives the early-19th-Century debate over "nullification" a whole new
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2017
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KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)1. Now that gives the early-19th-Century debate over "nullification" a whole new
meaning!
The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 18321837, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. It ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_Crisis
spanone
(135,818 posts)2. 👍🏼
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)3. Nice synchronicity with
Independence Day!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)6. Damn right!
This is a good thing.
Gothmog
(145,124 posts)4. Trump's voter suppression commission is falling apart
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)5. Kobach should find the trump kids registered in more than one state.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)7. Slow start to overturning 3 mllion vote win.