Worried voters try to 'unregister' after Trump voter-roll request

[DonViejo]

Gray Rohrer
Tallahassee Bureau

TALLAHASSEE — Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Michael Ertel got 15 calls from voters wanting to “unregister” to vote after the state said it would comply with part of a federal commission’s request for voters’ personal data.

Ultimately, he convinced all who called to stay on the voter rolls. He says concerns over personal data being given to the federal panel are overblown because the state is only giving what is already available to the public.

“You can’t pick and choose which public-records requests you comply with because you’re not sure about what the person’s going to do with the information,” Ertel said.

Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Thursday wrote to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, saying the state couldn’t give partial Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, criminal histories or personal data for police officers, judges and prosecutors because such information was exempt from Florida’s public records laws.


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[PoliticAverse]

1. "because the state is only giving what is already available to the public." n/t

[leftstreet]

2. Mission phase 1 accomplished!

The media coverage of this phony commission will ALSO discourage lots of people from ever registering to vote

GOPers must be laughing their asses off at us peons

[SHRED]

3. Voter suppression

That's their goal and it's working.

[WePurrsevere]

4. Personally I would rather see all states...

change things so there are no more parties to 'register' to... just a simple register to vote.

For the primaries a voter can pick one or the other to vote in. IMO this would possibly help make it more difficult for a partisan group to suppress votes by targeting political parties they don't agree with.

We need to do more to remove gerrymandering, make it easier to vote, to protect our ability to vote and to fight ALL attempts at suppression.