Common Cause Sues to Protect Voters Under Privacy Act
Urges Voters to Stay Registered in Defiance of Pence-Kobach Commission’s Disregard for the Law
Posted on July 14, 2017
The nonpartisan good government watchdog group Common Cause filed suit today to protect the privacy rights of voters, specifically seeking to prevent “the unlawful collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of the sensitive and personal voting data of millions of Americans,” by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Social Security Administration.
Also known as the Pence-Kobach Commission for its Chair and Vice-Chair, Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Common Cause asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the commission, DHS, and SSA to stop seeking and using the voter history and party affiliation of voters, and return any such data it has already obtained from any state.
The case alleges violations of the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. Of several lawsuits filed against the commission, Common Cause is filing the only suit that, if successful, would permanently enjoin the collection of data.
“Every eligible American has a right to an equal voice and vote in the future of their family, community, and country,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause. “The Privacy Act was passed in the wake of Watergate when the Nixon White House compiled information on individuals with opposing political views. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.” Common Cause’s founder, John Gardner, a Republican who was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Johnson Administration, was on Nixon’s infamous enemies' list....
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Good move. 
