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Related: About this forumHow to file a complaint with Texas Secretary of State
Texas is prohibited from providing all of the information. Glen Maxey works for the Texas Democratic Party and has posted on face book the procedure for filing a complaint with the Texas Secretary of State. Glen is the Texas Democratic Party expert on election law issues and I think that it makes sense to file complaints. Here is Glen's face book post
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Two sessions ago, the Republicans passed "Crosscheck" through the Texas legislature. This was a program to send all our voter data to the state of Kansas who ran a program to cross check it to other participating states to find "duplicates". I fought it vigorously, but it passed. That program is run by Mr. Korbach, Kansas Sec. of State.
Our SOS didn't implement the program because there was another statute in the Goverment code that prohibited sending dates of birth and social security and driver's license numbers to others.
In this past session, the Republicans tried to allow our data to be shared, but that failed. So it's still against the law.
Mr. Korbach, the Kansas SOS, is well known for writing the Arizona anti-immigrant "Papers Please" law. He has a long record of removing voters from voter rolls in Kansas who should be legal voters. He gets passed the most restrictive voter registration law in Kansas where you have to present proof of citizenship to register to vote (passport or birth certificate). He's just a general right wing bigot ass wipe.
So Trump puts this SOB in charge of his "voter protection" commission with a mission of proving that the three million undocument folks voted (NOT). And that dead people voted (NOT. Yes, there are dead people on voter roles because people die daily and there is a process for removing them that takes a while to make sure the correct person is being removed. Clerks have to wait until the death to be listed on the state Death Index). And that people are registered in multiple states (True, because there is no mechanism to remove a voter when the register in another state. But that doesn't mean they are voting in two states).
Korbach has ordered each state to turn over all their voter data. For what purpose? Who knows? The problem is there is no federal law in place for how to warehouse this data, how to protect it, etc. He had even asked them to just upload it to an unsecure website. HACK!
Well, the reaction is been pretty harsh. Over half of the states have refused. My favorite was Mississippi who said "Jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi is a great place to jump from" (I paraphrase, but pretty close).
Our great state of Texas, of course, says we'll send our public data. Positive: they aren't going to break Texas law and send TDL, DOB and phone numbers. Negative: the public data without those identifiers means you can't do any data matches with security that you're actually getting the right person. Just know that in Texas there are over 500 John Smith's with the same date of birth.
This is a fuck up of royal proportions and the Texas SOS should just say NO like these other states (lots of red states included).
Texas Secretary of State
P.O. Box 12887
Austin, Texas 78711-2887
(512) 463-5650
1-800-252-8683
Formal way to file a complaint:
Complaint Form
Our SOS didn't implement the program because there was another statute in the Goverment code that prohibited sending dates of birth and social security and driver's license numbers to others.
In this past session, the Republicans tried to allow our data to be shared, but that failed. So it's still against the law.
Mr. Korbach, the Kansas SOS, is well known for writing the Arizona anti-immigrant "Papers Please" law. He has a long record of removing voters from voter rolls in Kansas who should be legal voters. He gets passed the most restrictive voter registration law in Kansas where you have to present proof of citizenship to register to vote (passport or birth certificate). He's just a general right wing bigot ass wipe.
So Trump puts this SOB in charge of his "voter protection" commission with a mission of proving that the three million undocument folks voted (NOT). And that dead people voted (NOT. Yes, there are dead people on voter roles because people die daily and there is a process for removing them that takes a while to make sure the correct person is being removed. Clerks have to wait until the death to be listed on the state Death Index). And that people are registered in multiple states (True, because there is no mechanism to remove a voter when the register in another state. But that doesn't mean they are voting in two states).
Korbach has ordered each state to turn over all their voter data. For what purpose? Who knows? The problem is there is no federal law in place for how to warehouse this data, how to protect it, etc. He had even asked them to just upload it to an unsecure website. HACK!
Well, the reaction is been pretty harsh. Over half of the states have refused. My favorite was Mississippi who said "Jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi is a great place to jump from" (I paraphrase, but pretty close).
Our great state of Texas, of course, says we'll send our public data. Positive: they aren't going to break Texas law and send TDL, DOB and phone numbers. Negative: the public data without those identifiers means you can't do any data matches with security that you're actually getting the right person. Just know that in Texas there are over 500 John Smith's with the same date of birth.
This is a fuck up of royal proportions and the Texas SOS should just say NO like these other states (lots of red states included).
Texas Secretary of State
P.O. Box 12887
Austin, Texas 78711-2887
(512) 463-5650
1-800-252-8683
Formal way to file a complaint:
Complaint Form
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/complaintform-sos.pdf
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How to file a complaint with Texas Secretary of State (Original Post)
Gothmog
Jul 2017
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furtheradu
(1,865 posts)1. Great post, thanks!
Will be using the link/form, as well as calling.
LeftInTX
(25,224 posts)2. I shared his FB post
I emailed the SOS and will fill out this form too.
We need to get the word out
Gothmog
(145,107 posts)4. We lost one lawsuit on Kobach voter suppression plan
It is important to keep on filing complaints