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applegrove

(118,652 posts)
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 04:57 PM Jan 2018

White House plans to destroy Trump election fraud commission's voter data

By JOSH GERSTEIN at Politico

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/01/09/trump-election-fraud-commission-voter-data-332745

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The White House intends to destroy voter data collected by the election fraud commission recently shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday night.

White House Director of Information Technology Charles Herndon said in a declaration submitted to a federal court in Washington that officials plan to erase the information, rather than transfer it to the Department of Homeland Security or the National Archives and Records Administration.

Herndon also indicated that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' comment last week that the commission's "preliminary findings" were being sent to DHS was inaccurate.

"The Commission did not create any preliminary findings," Herndon wrote in the declaration, which was part of the Justice Department submission.

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applegrove

(118,652 posts)
3. They have to be on the side of privacy if they are going to destroy the long form census
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 05:10 PM
Jan 2018

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like Conservatives tried and did in Canada. Conservatives said it was about privacy but I doubt it. It is about making it harder for the poor to get funding from government and making only businesses that can afford research have access to data. Pulling the ladder up.

brush

(53,778 posts)
4. Exactly. They're not destroying shit. All that info is stored and backed up somewhere...
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jan 2018

and will be surreptitiously transferred to Homeland Security alone with that committee so they can continue their plotting unobserved.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
9. I think I will be. Im supposed to do something in Brooklyn that night too- so I kind of have to
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 06:19 PM
Jan 2018

work all that out. Trying to do both, of course!

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
11. Really? Wow that is good to hear. I have an invite to DC and if kind of love to do that too. LOL.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jan 2018

PM me or text closer to the day so we can meet up again if possible.

hlthe2b

(102,268 posts)
2. I am SOOO glad they don't have MINE (filed affidavit to become confidential voter in time)
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

I don't trust them AT all.

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