Voter commission to store data on White House computers under Pence direction

[struggle4progress]

By Spencer S. Hsu
July 6 at 5:18 PM

The Trump administration announced plans to keep voter roll data it has requested from all 50 states and the District on White House computers under the direction of a member of Vice President Pence’s staff, it told a federal judge Thursday.

The disclosure of the White House role came in a government filing required in a lawsuit by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog organization that has asked a federal judge in Washington to block the requests for voter data until the impact on Americans’ privacy can be fully assessed.

A decision on the request for a temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is expected as early as Friday afternoon ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-voter-commission-discloses-names-of-members-plan-to-store-data-at-white-house/2017/07/06/74e454ae-625d-11e7-84a1-a26b75ad39fe_story.html?utm_term=.f5d3b47b9119

[Hugin]

1. "...White House computers under the direction of a member of Vice President Pences staff"

Hmm, no conflict of interest or political implications there.

Is this the same person who left the voter info on 96 Million Voters just laying there on the coffee table in the hotel lobby recently?

[diva77]

2. nothing like aggregating voter data in one central location - easier to do things with it

reminds me of Karl Rove, election eve 2004 sitting in front of spreadsheets on computers in the WH basement -- and then after Kerry was leading, suddenly the results went in the other direction after midnight...

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/senior-advisor-to-president-bush-karl-rove-left-and-his-news-photo/525632382#senior-advisor-to-president-bush-karl-rove-left-and-his-assistant-picture-id525632382
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Published on
Thursday, June 01, 2006
by
Rolling Stone
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House
by
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm
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Kim Zetter Security Date of Publication: 04.24.07.

Did Ohio Election Data Run Through Republican Servers?
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/did_ohio_electi/

Election_ohioSlashdot is renewing a controversy that popped up previously but has been re-energized by the recent White House e-mail scandal.

snip...Back in 2004 during the presidential election, the Ohio secretary of state web site, which reports election results after they come in from counties on election day, routed through a hosting company called Smartech Corporation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Smartech also hosts a range of sites for the Republican National Committee, among them the controversial gwb43.com domain that some White House officials are said to have used for correspondence to evade having their emails disclosed through public records requests.

As a Netcraft search shows, the Ohio SoS site was hosted by Smartech in Tennessee on November 3, 2004 (the election was November 2nd) but then reverted to a different Ohio-based host on November 5 through February 6, 2006.

This information made the rounds last year and now voting activists have seized it as evidence that the RNC controlled the votes on election night in Ohio and altered them. No one has explained how that would work. Hosting a web site that displays election results is not the same as changing votes that are tabulated and first reported at the county level.

Nonetheless, the fact that the SoS election results page passes through a host that is so closely connected to the RNC is worth noting. It’s not a surprise, however, since former Ohio SoS Ken Blackwell was co-chair of President Bush’s re-election campaign...snip