Trump's election panel puts hold on voter data request

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump's commission to investigate possible election fraud on Monday put a freeze on its effort to collect sensitive voter data from states in the face of growing legal challenges.

In an email, the panel's designated officer, Andrew Kossack, asked state elections officers to "hold on submitting any data," the commission said in court filings.

Several state elections officials confirmed receiving a letter from the panel stating that it would provide further instructions after a federal judge had ruled on a complaint filed by a watchdog group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which is seeking a temporary restraining order.

Earlier on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, alleging violations of federal law requiring transparent government.

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POLITICS | Mon Jul 10, 2017 | 6:21pm EDT
By Julia Jacobs and Bernie Woodall


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vote-idUSKBN19V29W

[riversedge]

1. Good thing. for now. sigh.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. The judge ruling in any suit needs to invalidate the E.O. that created the Commission

and have it disbanded immediately.

[diva77]

3. and while he's at it, he should shut down the CrossCheck program

which collects the same data and was up to 30 states last time I checked, and is run by Kobach

[Igel]

8. And anything else we don't like.

Kangs rule!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. If you don't vote for me it's unfair, it's rigged, it's crooked - so

only those voting for me should be registered and allowed to vote

This is the essence of democracy - the right to a free and fair ballot

and what could be fairer than voting for me?

[Igel]

9. Please expand on that.

"If you don't vote for my candidate"--which, by the way, always includes the 1sg--"then it's unfair, it's rigged it's crooked."

That's an evergreen. And just as the attractiveness of an Xmas tree requires some novelty, so also this evergreen grows wearisome to an on fogy. as it seems, such as I.

Hard to tell the difference between "they're bad" and "they're bad because they're not like me." (One's centered on a external worldview that's readily identifiable, one's egocentric. In case there's a question.)

[ResistantAmerican17]

5. This Clown Car of an administration can't get anything right

Except sticking it to every American who disagrees with his deplorable *uck America policies!

[Gothmog]

6. Which lawsuit gets credit for this?

[Eugene]

15. The court filing comes in response to the Electronic Privacy Information Center lawsuit.

The Washington Post has more information:

Trump voting panel tells states to hold off sending data while court weighs privacy impact

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-voting-panel-tells-states-to-hold-off-sending-data-while-court-weighs-privacy-impact/2017/07/10/c4c837fa-6597-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html

[onecent]

7. I thought some states turned the voter stuff into Dump,

I thought one said Missouri...I SURELY HOPE NOT.

[LeftInTX]

10. A Republican in SC bought his state's voter rolls and personally sent them to Trump

The state didn't give them to Trump, just this jerk.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. If the information is publicly available, then it's publicly available.

I guess that's like sending ***** a telephone directory. How secret was that information in the first place?

Does this proud patriot have a name? I'm sure he wants to share the pride.

Is he anonymous? Not for long. That's the kind of information that can be FOIA'ed.

[C Moon]

11. Putin must have told him of something better.

[George II]

13. Another about face by trump. But just a few days ago he was tweeting that the plan...

...was so successful.

[iluvtennis]

14. Backtrack, backtrack, backtrack - just like he did during primaries and GE. Dumpty never thinks...

anything through to what the "logical" (a word not in his brain) conclusion/what the consequences could be. Just like he recently did with that BS proposal to work with [our enemy] Russia to fight cyber hacking. And the pitiful thing about this, his minions still voted for the unfit and unqualified jackass.

[ailsagirl]

16. I wonder what their next hare-brained scheme will be

[Still In Wisconsin]

17. Translation: Drumpf's internal polling outfit says his base don't like this. n/t