cheeto jesus thinks voter fraud exists in large numbers. "I would have won popular vote if millions yada yada i'm a sore partial winner and total whiner."
creates Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity. commission is led by Kansas christer Kobach and "I can't eat in the presence of females other than my wife" vice shithead pence.
commission sends letters to all states and DC. The panel is seeking "dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information."
19 states refuse to share any data. 26 states will only share limited data. obv some repube governors and sec of states say fuck off. sec of states say total 2016 fraud was 6 cases.
An online privacy watchdog is suing the Trump administration's commission investigating alleged election fraud, saying the information requests violates voters' rights.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit research organization, filed for a temporary restraining order on Monday to block the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity from gathering voter records from state election officials. "The publication of voters' personal information violates the constitutional right to informational privacy," EPIC's lawsuit says. "The Supreme Court has long recognized that individuals have a constitutionally protected interest in 'avoiding disclosure of personal matters.'"
a taxpayer funded kangaroo court led by swamp monsters solely to mend liarinchiefs easily bruised ego.
absolute opposite of maga.
"They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great state to launch from," Delbert Hosemann, a Republican and the Mississippi Secretary of State, said in a statement last week, adding the state has the right “to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral processes.”
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, on Wednesday directed his secretary of state to not release any sensitive information to the panel. “The request is simply too broad and includes sensitive information of Arkansas voters,” Hutchinson said in a statement.
"There's not enough bourbon here in Kentucky to make this request seem sensible," Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes, a Democrat, said on MSNBC last week, adding that she would not turn over any sensitive voter info.
fuck this administration.