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 administration’s “election integrity” panel saw its first resignation Monday night: Maryland’s Republican deputy secretary of state Luis E. Borunda.
Borunda, who did not immediately respond to TPM’s request for an interview, was appointed to the controversial panel on June 21. Unlike in most U.S. states, however, the Secretary of State’s office in Maryland has nothing to do with registering voters or administering elections. That falls to Maryland’s Attorney General and State Board of Elections, which on Tuesday joined the growing list of states refusing to cooperate with the national voter fraud panel’s 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.”
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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.
Glad you're here. We need all the Dems we can get to turn this reddish purple state blue once and for all. 
we tattoo brand on forehead. Ja?
Cannot change like clothes.
