Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights
By Ari Berman
TODAY 10:26 AM
... yesterday ...
1. The House Appropriations Committee voted to defund the Election Assistance Commission, the .. federal agency that helps states make sure their voting machines aren’t hacked ...
2 The Department of Justice sent a letter to all 50 states .. and asking how they plan to remove voters from the rolls. While this might sound banal, it’s a clear instruction .. to start purging .. voting rolls ...
3. The White House commission on election integrity .. sent a letter to 50 states asking them to provide sweeping voter data including “the full first and last names of all registrants, middle names or initials if available, addresses, dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information.” While Kobach asked for “publicly-available voter roll data,” much of this information .. is .. private ... Kobach has a .. record of .. misleading claims about voter fraud and .. policies that sharply limit access to the ballot ...
4. The Trump administration named Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation as a member of the commission, who’s done more than anyone other than Kobach to spread the myth of voter fraud and enact suppressive policies. Von Spakovsky was special counsel to the Bush administration’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Brad Schlozman, who said he wanted to “gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the <voting> section” ...
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-trump-administration-is-planning-an-unprecedented-attack-on-voting-rights/
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