voter-fraud commission wants to publish voting history, party

>Experts say they are concerned about the voter-fraud commission's activities. Some said the request appeared to be politically motivated, ProPublica reported on Thursday night. One expert, according to reporter Jessica Huseman, was especially skeptical of Kobach, who has spent years focusing on voter fraud in his current role as Kansas' secretary of state. Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, said of Kobach:

>"I have every reason to think that given the shoddy work that Mr. Kobach has done in this area in the past that this is going to be yet another boondoggle and a propaganda tool that tries to inflate the problem of double registration beyond what it actually is."

>Vanita Gupta, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, torched the commission Thursday night: "Pence and Kobach are laying the groundwork for voter suppression, plain & simple," Gupta said.

How US states are responding

>Election officials and lawmakers from at least five states called out Kobach's request.

>California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said it is his duty to ensure election integrity and protect voters' privacy. "I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally," a statement from Padilla said.

>Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes also pushed back, saying "I do not intend to release Kentuckians' sensitive personal data to the fed. gov't." Grimes also offered a sharp rebuke of Trump in her statement, calling the president's voter-fraud claims a "lie."

>Denise Merrill, Connecticut's secretary of state, said she would provide "publicly available information" to the commission, but sharply criticized Kobach, who she said "has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas." Given that history, Merrill said, "we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this Commission."

>Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said, "I have no intention of honoring this request."

>Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin told Commonwealth Magazine, "They’re not going to get it. It's not a public record."

>The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity will hold its first meeting in Washington D.C. on July 19, a statement from Pence's office said.

Goddamn what a retard lol. This kind of shit would have had conservatives going full pitchfork if it was proposed last year.

>>153284
Former Trump supporter here, so great to see this guy crash and burn. Goddamn what a retard lol. This kind of shit would have had conservatives going full pitchfork if it was proposed last year.

Where does it say the commission wants to publish this data?

>The commission said all voter data submitted by the states would be made public.

Okay found a line, but this is awfully vague and doesn't really imply that they want to publish personally identifiable information.

>>153305
>In addition, in order for the Commission to fully analyze vulnerabilities and issues related to voter registration and voting, I am requesting that you provide to the Commission the publicly available voter roll data for Connecticut, including, if publicly available under the laws of your state, the full first and last names of all registrants, middle names or initials if available, addresses, 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.

>You may submit your responses electronically to [email protected] or by utilizing the Safe Access File Exchange (“SAFE”), which is a secure FTP site the federal government uses for transferring large data files. You can access the SAFE site at https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/safe/Welcome.aspx. We would appreciate a response by July 14, 2017. Please be aware that any documents that are submitted to the full Commission will also be made available to the public. If you have any questions, please contact Commission staff at the same email address.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/06/PEIC-Letter-to-Connecticut-1.pdf?tid=a_inl

In any case, the mere threat that people's contact information, their party affiliation, and when they voted could be made public in specific instances opens people up to intimidation and will discourage registration.

>>153318
I know you're replying to
>>153318

I dunno about that but my most practical fear is we'll just go the way of Russia and elections will stop mattering because it will be inordinately difficult for opposition to win regardless of how many folks they convince to bring out the vote.

>>153319
>opens people up to intimidation and will discourage registration.
It actually open them up for isolation, and slaughter.

Spooky. I live in a very liberal area and have been telling everyone I voted third party in order to keep people off my back. If they see I voted Trump it could destroy my social life.

If we're going to have a government mandated monopoly/duopoly party system could we at least have less insufferable and retarded parties?
China and Russia's elites don't suffer from a denial of climate change, anti-vaxers, anti-contraceptive, they accept the need for a mixed economy in healthcare, their premiers don't make their citizens embarrassed every time they show up in the news.

>>153278
OMG, Trump makes exaggerated but refuted claims claims. In order to protect his ego, US taxpayers have to fund an investigation.
And now we have to lose our privacy and allow an already information bloated government to create yet another database on private information.
Who has oversight of this data?
What are the security protocols?
Is there congressional oversight or judicial review?
Or is this another of Trump's ego induced wet dream?

This would make it so easy to deport the illegals

>>153285
Former Trump voter here as well, it's fucking hilarious to see him crash and burn but in all seriousness we can't let him get Code Lyoko