GOP Official Quits Voter Fraud Panel As 41 States Refuse To Hand Over Data
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published JULY 4, 2017 9:38 AM
Amid a wave of states refusing requests for personal voter data and a new legal complaint filed against its leader, the Trump administrations election integrity panel saw its first resignation Monday night: Marylands Republican deputy secretary of state Luis E. Borunda.
Borunda, who did not immediately respond to TPMs request for an interview, was appointed to the controversial panel on June 21. Unlike in most U.S. states, however, the Secretary of States office in Maryland has nothing to do with registering voters or administering elections. That falls to Marylands Attorney General and State Board of Elections, which on Tuesday joined the growing list of states refusing to cooperate with the national voter fraud panels demand for a long list of personal voter information, including the Social Security numbers, addresses and party affiliation of millions of citizens.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) railed against the request on Monday, calling it repugnant.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-official-quits-bogus-voter-fraud-group
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)that their republican symps FAILED.
concreteblue
(626 posts)AND a GOPer quitting?
These are Good Things.
NCDem47
(2,238 posts)As of Monday afternoon, three states -- Florida, Idaho and Nebraska -- are still reviewing the commission's request. Another three states -- Hawaii, New Jersey and Wyoming -- have not returned CNN's request for comment. And while seven states are still awaiting a letter from the commission, four of them -- New Mexico, Michigan, South Carolina and West Virginia -- have already pledged not to provide voters' private information.
Just three states -- Colorado, Missouri and Tennessee -- commended Kobach's attempt to investigate voter fraud in their respective statements.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/politics/kris-kobach-letter-voter-fraud-commission-information/index.html
The article gives each states response or non-response. For example,
North Carolina: "Integrity of our elections is critical, and a recent State Board of Elections investigation already found there was no evidence of significant voter fraud in North Carolina," Gov. Roy Cooper said in a statement on Twitter Friday. "My staff has told the State Board of Elections that we should not participate in providing sensitive information beyond what is public record as it is unnecessary, and because I have concerns that it is an effort to justify the President's false claims about voter fraud."
Which was way more forceful than what my own home state of Indiana said. But I'll take it.
Indiana: "Indiana law doesn't permit the Secretary of State to provide the personal information requested by Secretary Kobach," Secretary of State Connie Lawson tweeted Friday. "Under Indiana public records laws, certain voter info is available to the public, the media and any other person who requested the information for non-commercial purposes. The information publicly available is name, address and congressional district assignment.
JHan
(10,173 posts)*smh*
I just moved from FL to NC and I could not STAND that man. Seriously, just like Trump, I couldn't bear to watch him. Pure evil and a contrarian to anything logical or for the greater good.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)Glad you're here. We need all the Dems we can get to turn this reddish purple state blue once and for all.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,906 posts)Let's call it what it is: Betrayal. Sellout. Compromise.
And we can call him what he is: Quisling. Unamerican.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)What this far right conservative idiot Abbott is doing to Texans makes my blood boil.
keithbvadu2
(36,371 posts)Would they be ok with giving it to all political parties?
The Democrats, the Nazis, Russia, the Libertarians?
Well, if you give it to the Republicans, it's already going to the Nazis and Russia.
Yeah! Yeah! They have a legal right to it?
Should they?
paleotn
(17,781 posts)and will cheat and steal to do it. That is until the demographic steam roller finally takes them out.
Fla Dem
(23,353 posts)He's a Trump ass kisser and wants to run for the senate.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Orrex
(63,086 posts)reported that "more than a dozen" states had declined to provide this information. And NPR went on to blur it further by observing that some states complied only partially. A casual listener could easily have come away with the impression that 37 states were on board with this tyrannical attack on voters.
Well, yes. 41 is "more than a dozen," but so is 13 and so is 500 million. Other than downplaying the avalanche of resistance that Trump has met, what is the value of failing to lead with the exact number?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)First they find out who we are. Than they catalogue us into ethnic, religious, race and gender groups. Then they make us visible by forcing us to sew insignias depicting these things on our clothes for easy visual identification.
Then they persecute.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)we tattoo brand on forehead. Ja?
Cannot change like clothes.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I can definitely see that happening. Bar codes on the forehead and electronic chips high up between our shoulder blades.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I just wish Gov Larry Hogan would come out with something as strong as our AG's statement. His statement through a spokesman:
As for any such request, the state Board of Elections should supply no more information than is required of them under the law,
The Board of Elections isn't giving them jackshit. The AG made that very clear. Hogan is caught:
ROCK<Hogan>HARD PLACE. He initially said when he was trying to avoid the issue that the decision wasn't up to him.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)Lots of Federal employees live there. They will be pissed if anything is done to help dump illegally seize another presidential election.