Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann (R) didn’t mince words in his response to calls for all 50 secretaries of state to hand over sensitive voter information to President Donald Trump’s bogus “election integrity” commission: “Jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great State to launch from.”
Hosemann said in a statement Friday that his office hadn’t actually received the commission’s request for data — including the last four digits of voters’ Social Security numbers, military status, felony convictions and overseas citizen information.
But, he said, “[i]n the event I were to receive correspondence from the Commission […] My reply would be: They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great State to launch from.”
“Mississippi residents should celebrate Independence Day and our State’s right to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral processes,” he added.
A spokesperson for South Dakota’s Republican Secretary of State, Shantel Krebs, similarly told the Associated Press that the state “will not share voter information with the commission.”
A growing number of states have rejected the commission’s request outright, or said they will provide only publicly available information to the commission.
I´m sure Fox News will change their headline to note the bipartisan refusal to cooperate.
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Dem state officials refusing to cooperate with Trump voter fraud probe
Democratic state officials already are refusing to cooperate with the voter fraud investigation ordered by President Trump, saying they will not hand over the extensive “voter roll data” the commission is seeking.
Wow. When you lose your own state of Kansas and now Mississippi and South Dakota, it’s not lookin’ too good for ya, Kobach.
Time to put the kibosh on Kobach!
Mississippi: Bless yo little pea-pickin’ heart. Now you go drown yo-self in the Gulf, ya hear?
Now someone’s bound to slip and that’s where the fun will really start.
Man, first his own state, now fucking Mississippi?
That’s gotta hurt.