California Refuses To Cooperate With Trump Voter Fraud Probe

“California’s participation would only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud.”

Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement Thursday that Trump’s voter fraud commission’s request of personal voting data on every American voter “is a waste of taxpayer money” that aims to ratify a false claim that millions voted illegally.

California, which had more than 19.4 million registered voters as of February. is the first state to announce it will not comply with the commission’s request. Trump’s commission on Wednesday asked all states to provide personal information about registered voters. Trump has claimed, without evidence, that millions voted illegally in last year’s presidential election.

″I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally,” Padilla said.

Update: Virginia will join California and refuse to comply too https://t.co/cxxSUwY5Xk

— Sam Levine (@srl) June 29, 2017

Another one pushes back. This one is one the commission!

Lawson withholds info from Trump’s voter fraud commission, even though she’s a member

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson won’t provide most of the voter information requested by President Donald Trump’s commission on voter fraud, even though she is a member of the commission.

“Indiana law doesn’t permit the Secretary of State to provide the personal information requested by Secretary Kobach,” Lawson, a Republican, said Friday in a statement.

She noted in her statement that only names, addresses and congressional district assignments are publicly available in Indiana.

That means Indiana won’t provide information about social security numbers, birth dates, political affiliation, voting history or other voter data.

Lawson is positioned to play a key role in shaping policy on such issues. She was appointed to Trump’s commission in May and will host secretaries of state from across the nation in Indianapolis next week for a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State.

As a state lawmaker, Lawson championed a bill in 2005 that made Indiana’s voter ID requirements among the strictest in the nation.

She also attracted headlines in September when she sent a letter warning county election officials about a shadowy voter registration group with Democratic ties. At the time, the group accused Lawson of playing politics and suppressing the vote.

Well I can why she was appointed to the commission! But doesn’t this kind of muck the whole thing up?

This may be the compromise for many states? Just hand over already-public information?

Trump Voter Fraud Panel Request For Information Gets Chilly Connecticut Reply

President Donald Trump’s special commission to investigate alleged voter fraud is asking Connecticut election officials for reams of personal data on all registered voters in the state and got a frosty reply from Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

“In the spirit of transparency, we intend to share publicly-available information with [President Trump’s] Kobach Commission while ensuring that the privacy of voters is honored by withholding protected data,” Merrill said in a public response Thursday.

“Given Secretary Kobach’s history, we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this Commission,” Merrill said. She said the courts have “repudiated his methods on multiple occasions but often after the damage has been done to voters.”

Governor Cooper released the following comment after a new federal government commission requested that states turnover voter information: pic.twitter.com/DaCbEXUEjn

— Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) June 30, 2017