New York Daily News

Voter data? No dice, Don, say 44 states

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MORE THAN four out of five states can’t or won’t fork over private data to President Trump’s voter fraud commission, according to a new report.

Forty-four states have refused to supply varying degrees of voter informatio­n requested last week by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidenti­al Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, CNN reported.

Kobach’s commission — launched in the wake of Trump’s debunked claims that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2016 election’s popular vote — wants “publicly available” state-level data in order to “fully analyze vulnerabil­ities and issues related to voter registrati­on and voting.”

In a Wednesday letter to all 50 states, Kobach asked for voters’ full names, addresses, dates of birth, party affiliatio­ns, voting histories since 2006, felony conviction­s and the last four digits of social security numbers.

Documents submitted to the commission through the secure online portal will ultimately be made public, the letter said.

The majority of states have recoiled at the idea of parting with such sensitive and detailed voter informatio­n — much to the President’s chagrin.

“Numerous states are refusing to give informatio­n to the very distinguis­hed VOTER FRAUD PANEL,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “What are they trying to hide?”

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