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-Land of the Free
State officials refuse to turn over voter roll data to Trump election panel
2017-06-30
[The Hill] State officials from Virginia, California and Kentucky said Thursday that they will refuse a request for voter roll data from President Trump's commission on election integrity.

Earlier Thursday, it was reported that the commission sent letters to all 50 states asking for voters' names, birthdays, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their voting history dating back to 2006.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said in a statement that he has "no intention" of fulfilling the request, defending the fairness of his state's elections. He also blasted the commission in his statement, saying it was based on the "false notion" of widespread voter fraud in the November presidential election.

"At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump’s alternative election facts, and at worst is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression," McAuliffe stated.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) also responded to the request, saying "I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally" in the last election.

"California’s participation would only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud made by the President, Vice President, and [Kansas Secretary of State Kris] Kobach," Padilla stated.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  Last November was a Federal election. Guess what kiddos, it becomes subject to federal investigation. Read - obstruction. If we could get a real DoJ back, you could count on it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-30 18:45  

#12  Later in the evening, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) said she also wouldn't offer up the information requested by the panel.

Rambler of Virginia. You are correct, the current governor of Kentucky is Matt Bevin, a Pub. The Secretary of State is Alsion Lundergan Grimes (D) according to the article.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-30 16:10  

#11  Having said that, I don't think they'll find much proof in California since nobody checked voters vs voter rolls at the election station, so there is really no reason why you would need to cook the books at all.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-06-30 15:43  

#10  They should already be ballot measures gathering signatures for a whole sweet of election reform issues. This should be added to the list.

Denying really makes those three states look more than a little guilty.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-06-30 15:42  

#9  I just read to the Governor's of Connecticut and Virginia comments to the effect that voter fraud is a fantasy, and Trump is just trying to put up a smokescreen for his comment, and that the Kansas Secretary of State is an architect of voter fraud in his state. This is the first serious nationwide attempt to confirm or deny voter fraud, and coincidently, illegal alien voting. The resistance seems to be either based on protecting voter identity from the federal government, or pure politics, either a laughable contention. I suspect that the truth in California for example, will be massive fraud and illegal voting, and the perpetrators will be found to be overwhelmingly from one political party, .....not mine!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-06-30 13:55  

#8  JohnQC, actually the governor of Kentucky is a Republican.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-06-30 12:14  

#7  All are Democrats who are refusing to turn over voter roll data. Are they are afraid revealing Dem voter corruption? These are the same people who scream so loudly about voter ID requirements and cleaning the rolls of dead people and illegal voters.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-30 10:55  

#6  How many of them would have the legitimacy of their own election questioned?
Posted by: Iblis   2017-06-30 10:22  

#5  Just don't allow their delegates into the next Electoral College.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-06-30 10:17  

#4  They just know that their voter fraud and illegal voting will be exposed on a massive scale.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-30 08:18  

#3  "We refuse to prove to the world that your claims are false and malicious."

Because we think you just might find out your ridiculous claims are accurate.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-06-30 07:41  

#2  Won't it show all the rusky hacking?!?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-06-30 04:09  

#1  They don't want to go to jail?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-30 03:05  

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