Dunlap again refuses to give Maine voter data to Trump fraud panel

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

Secretary of State Matt Dunlap says he’s refusing a second request by the Trump administration’s election fraud commission to turn over Maine voters’ personal information.

Dunlap is one of four Democrats serving on the president’s commission, which opponents have assailed as a sham designed to nationalize Republican voter suppression efforts. He has said he’s keeping an open mind about the fraud commission, but he plans to send a letter to its chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach, asking for clarity around how Maine’s voter information will be used.

“We need to know what our goals are. There are some real questions here about whether or not this data can be secured, and it may not provide us with anything of value anyway,” Dunlap said.

The commission initially requested the voter data — including names, addresses, party affiliations and voting histories — with the plan of making it public. But that request was rejected by 44 state election officials, including Dunlap.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/01/politics/dunlap-again-refuses-to-give-maine-voter-data-to-trump-fraud-panel-2/

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They're still at it folks...

[Igel]

1. Never understood this.

If it's not public, it's not requested.

If it's public, it's already not secured.

"We will retain all the publicly available data in a state of strictest security" doesn't make sense to this native speaker of English.

Now, "It's public, and if the bastards want it they can get to it the way the other 330 million Americans or anybody else in the US or, if it's online already, any Russians with Internet connections in the rest of the world could" seems completely reasonable.

Perhaps he's talking about stuff he doesn't have to give out because it's not public? Then he's basically saying, "I was asked, and instead of just saying 'no' I'm going to stamp my feet and scream 'no' at the top of my lungs." Then he's being either a politician or silly (does that count as pleonasm?).

It makes even less sense to me when so many people also have the opinion that "this highly confidential information over there, however, should be publicly available."

What's public must be kept secret. What's secret must be made public. Ironic, that.

Uff.

[jpak]

2. It's a giant phishing expedition for metadata that the GOP and Russia will use

in the next election.

yup

[SergeStorms]

4. If they want it........

they can go get it. Why do the states have to do their work for them? Screw Trump and his fruitless search for 3 million illegal voters.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump wants to make #FakeElections

pretty obvious what he's up to