Thursday, July 6, 2017

Alarm Raised as Trump Election Panel Requests Detailed Data on All US Voters

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/29/alarm-raised-trump-election-panel-requests-detailed-data-all-us-voters
"Voting and civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells on Thursday after it was learned that an election commission established by Donald Trump—one which critics feared from its inception would be used to suppress, not protect, voter access—had sent requests to all fifty states demanding personal and detailed information about voters. According to The Hill, a letter was sent from Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State in Kansas and vice chairman of Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asking the states for "several pieces of information about voters, including their names, birthdays, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their voting history dating back to 2006." The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights and voting protection watchdog, described the move as dangerous and called on states receiving the request not to comply."