Mississippi to Kobach: "Go jump in the Gulf"

[Tanuki]

http://m.newser.com/story/245094/go-jump-in-the-gulf-miss-tells-trump-commission.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

"More states are pushing back against a Trump administration request for personal voter information, with Mississippi's secretary of state saying the voting-fraud commission can "go jump in the Gulf of Mexico," Mediaite reports. Delbert Hosemann said on Friday that his office had not yet received a letter from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who with VP Mike Pence is leading the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Noting that Mississippi has previously fought in federal court to protect voters' privacy, Hosemann used colorful language to signal his reply, adding, "Mississippi residents should celebrate Independence Day and our State’s right to protect the privacy of our citizens." At least 27 states have refused or expressed reservations about turning over what Kobach calls "publicly available voter roll data," per CNN."....(more)

[Gothmog]

1. From the Brennan Center

Link to tweet

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[MFM008]

2. When you lose Mississippi

You lose.
They just should have asked for voters who were gay or non white, then they would get lists...........

[Tanuki]

4. Not fair. Hosemann also rejected an attempt by the right wing

voter suppression group "True the Vote" to get ahold of voter records on 2014.
https://mississippitoday.org/2017/06/30/hosemann-on-trump-voter-id-request-go-jump-in-the-gulf/
...."Twenty-two Mississippians sponsored by Texas-based True the Vote filed a federal lawsuit against Hosemann and the state of Mississippi in 2014, seeking birth dates of Mississippi’s 1.8 million registered voters. Many of those 22 plaintiffs were supporters of state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who narrowly lost the Republican primary runoff to U.S. Senator Thad Cochran. McDaniel earned more votes than Cochran in the primary.

In court and in public, Hosemann pushed back, calling the lawsuit “ill conceived, incoherent, misguided, poorly drafted, filed in the wrong court and probably politically motivated,” saying all voter file information was available to anyone after properly redacting the voter’s birth date and social security numbers.

“The Mississippi Legislature enacted a law to protect your birth date and social security number from public dissemination,” Hosemann said in a statement in July 2014. “This out-of-state company (True the Vote) wants your birth date or wants you, the taxpayer, to pay the redacting and copying for them. Your locally elected circuit clerks are following the law.”

The federal district court ruled in Hosemann’s favor, tossing the case and stating the state restrictions on providing voter identification did not violate the federal voting rights act.".....

[smirkymonkey]

3. Good on you Mississippi!