Trump voting commission bought Texas election data flagging Hispanic voters

[demmiblue]

Source: The Washington Post

President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.

In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.

White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.

The voting commission was disbanded Jan. 3 after Trump cited a host of ongoing state and federal lawsuits and resistance from state officials over the sweeping pursuit, in the name of investigating voter fraud, of information about more than 150 million voters across the country. The voting panel said it would destroy all voter data it had gathered, without detailing any data purchases.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-election-fraud-commission-bought-texas-election-data-flagging-hispanic-voters/2018/01/22/2791934a-fd55-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.5f61f791cbf2

[kimbutgar]

1. You know they already turned it over to Russia for them to attack those with Hispanic surnames

I hope the surname Cruz is also blocked.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Naked Racial Profiling

raw, pure, and simple.

[salin]

4. Racial Profiling for Voter Caging

no doubt.

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/guide-voter-caging

[mpcamb]

3. 'Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity' explicitly asking for Hispanic

surname flag notation,”

Ah, so that's what they mean by 'integrity'.

[not fooled]

5. And no doubt that data

is now in the hands of DHS--kobach and the rest of the vote stealers are now working in secret to rig more elections:

[link:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/why-trumps-voter-fraud-commission-disbanded.html|]

But the commission’s dissolution will not end the Trump administration’s voter fraud offensive. Kobach has stated that he will now work with the Department of Homeland Security to study “election integrity.” That’s disturbing for two reasons. First, DHS was not created to analyze voting, and does not have any clear statutory authority to investigate voter fraud. Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, has called DHS’ involvement “an abuse of the agency’s power.” The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has already filed a Freedom of Information Act request with DHS demanding documents related to voter investigations.

[cannabis_flower]

6. The really stupid part is..

Not every person with a Hispanic surname is Hispanic and not every Hispanic person has a Hispanic surname.

I'm married to a Hispanic man. I have a Hispanic surname. I am not Hispanic.

A Hispanic teacher at one of the schools I work at has an Anglo surname. Not even sure what the point of this request would be.

[lagomorph777]

8. Yeah, but you're probably Hispanic-friendly

and in Trump's mind, that makes you automatically guilty of voting-while-not-being-Republican.

[denbot]

9. The totality of the numbers will serve their purpose.

Voter suppression.

[keithbvadu2]

7. flag equals target

[pecosbob]

10. There's a elephant in the room

How the hell is it legal to purchase this kind of data in the first place?

[itcfish]

11. My Last Name

Sounds Arabic, and I am Spanish. I get a lot of correspondence from Arab American Associations. How do they get my information and what makes them think I am an Arab American. I want to know who sells these data bases.