Voter Fraud Panel Makes Another Data Request, California Immediately Rejects

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 27, 2017 10:21 AM

On Wednesday, the chair of the White House’s bogus voter fraud panel Kris Kobach sent another request to states asking for publicly available voter registration records, a request the state of California has already shut down.

The latest request outlines a recent legal battle between the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a group that filed a motion to keep the commission from receiving the voter data. The motion was denied on Monday, which prompted the most recent request.

“I appreciate the cooperation of chief election officials from more than 30 states who have already responded to the June 28 request and either agreed to provide these publicly available records, or are currently evaluating what specific records they may provide in accordance with their state laws,” Kobach said in one letter to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. “Like you, I serve as the chief election official of my state. And like you, ensuring the privacy and security of any non-public voter information is a high priority.”

The commission’s first request for voter data, which asked for everything from voter addresses and political party affiliation to military status and the last four digits of social security numbers, was met with harsh pushback from nearly every state. Most states said they would either not provide the data or only share publicly available information.

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[DK504]

1. So the ACLU is all over this, right

The lawsuits need to begin to protect our privacy.

[Igel]

2. The data are public.

If they're public, how are they private?

Even worse, wasn't there a news story that some (R) group had already basically done this and then left the data exposed on their server?

Yeah, people accused them of hacking, as well. But if it's listed as public and you download it from a publicly accessible, it's not hacking. Now matter how much we dislike our fellow Americans who are downloading it. (I'm less sure when it's done by non-Americans, esp. across borders.)

[mopinko]

4. they are asking for non-publicly available data also.

voter rolls that any campaign can get, plus data kept privately, like the socials and military status.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Any state that even submits the purported "publicly available" data

will probably have it fed it into that bogus "Cross Check" system, allowing states to do all sorts of suppression if they claim they "saw" a duplicate. If anything, those states that have publicly available data usually have stipulations associated with those who request and receive it and that and can hopefully help to torpedo what they apparently plan to do with it.