The Trump administration has set up what Trump calls a “voter fraud panel.” Billed as an official “Advisory Commission on Election Integrity Resources,” the commission is being met with stiff resistance from many states, lawsuits by civil rights, and privacy watchdogs, and it is even prompting some worried voters to take the names off the voter rolls.
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President Donald Trump established the commission by executive order on May 11. On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of the commission, sent a letter to all 50 states and the District of Columbia asking them to submit data from their voter rolls, including voters’ political party affiliations and voting histories from 2006 onwards, as well as voters’ names, addresses and dates of birth.
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The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) was one of more than 100 groups that jointly called on Secretaries of State to reject this request for sensitive voter data and many Secretaries of State are sounding the alarm.