Voter data? No dice, Don, say 44 states
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?”