Trump's sham voter commission asked Texas to flag 'all Hispanic surnames' in voter records

[applegrove]

By Jen Hayden at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/22/1735043/-Trump-s-phony-voter-commission-asked-Texas-to-flag-all-Hispanic-surnames-in-voter-records

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Donald Trump and his racism have time and time again transcended words and been turned into real life policy. He turned his phony voting commission into the incompetent hands of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history. Kobach and the commission were widely mocked when they demanded every state send their full voter registration records to the commission for review.

President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.

In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.

White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.


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[Vinca]

1. Guess Ted Cruz will be under the microscope.

[sdfernando]

3. ...and Beto

O’Rourke is in the clear....what a stupid man. A person’s surname can have nothing to do with ethnicity.

[Gothmog]

2. That ACLU is litigating what is to be done with the documents obtained by this

fraudulent commission. The DOJ has stated that these records will not be given to DHS.

[HipChick]

4. I believe nothing coming out of this administration..

[Gothmog]

5. Neither does the ACLU with respect to anything related to Kobach

This is being litigated and the ACLU will confirm what is done with any files generated by this fraudulent commission https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/doj-kobach-declaration-voter-fraud-commission-panel

A federal judge didn’t buy the Justice Department’s argument that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach couldn’t speak to what was being done with the data collected by the now-defunct voter fraud commission he led. The judge ordered that Kobach or another commission member file a declaration giving a full explanation.

The declaration will state “what information was collected or created by the
Commission and/or its members on behalf of the Commission, where that information was and is being stored, by whom the information has been accessed, and what plans were made by the Commission to maintain or dispose of the information,” U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said Thursday.

The order came in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Florida against the commission and Florida last year, for turning over state voter roll data Kobach had requested

[ProudLib72]

6. The thing that bothers me most about this

is that everyone already knew Kobach's commission was up to no good. Now the damage is done, and it will take who knows how long to litigate. But I'm sure that sometime in December we will find out that tens of thousands of perfectly legal voters were not allowed to vote in the mid-terms.

I feel like we are always two steps behind.

[lunasun]

7. It's continuing they are moving to more suppression