The New York Board of Elections decided on Tuesday to hand over most of the voter data requested by the Trump administration’s bogus voter fraud commission, the Albany Times Union reported.
The elections board said it would hand over the voter data requested by the commission’s vice chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, with the exception of voters’ social security numbers, according to the Times Union.
The board decided to hand over the data despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) statement pledging that New York would not turn over the data. The Board of Elections, not Cuomo, had the authority to make the decision.
At the end of June, Kobach issued a request to states for their voter roll data, as well as information on voter fraud and election security. That request prompted incredible backlash, with several states refusing to comply with the request.
Cuomo - tim to fire some folks!!
I am SO ashamed to be a New Yorker right now.
It’s time NYC, Nassau and Westchester County secede from NYS!
From the linked article, I sure hope there’s a reciprocal FOIA request made to the bogus “election integrity” panel so we know exactly what they’re doing with our private information.
My highlight, but I have no doubt Kansan Kris Kobach will use that information for election purposes, specifically voter suppression purposes.
If you read the local press this doesn’t come across as that terrible. The BoE received an FOI for the info and had little options but to comply. They determined the SS data was not subject to FOI disclosure and denied that. But it’s NY. It’s not a swing state and there is little the GOP can there can do with the information Kobach will inevitably give them.
Wow. I’m practically speechless. What’s up with that??? Who the fuck is on that election commission? I can’t believe that they’d be willing to do that without conclusive assurances that the information will be provably secured from identity theft. Not even a fight in protecting people’s privacy in the public interest? I’d tar and feather those morons. RealIy.
I anticipate Kobach ‘accidentally’ finding all the info he’s gathered, hacked from his computer system, after some idiot clicks on some malware link, exposing everyone’s data to the world…but most likely some Republican data base to manipulate the next election. Or, some low-level fool working with him to take home the data base home on his computer. I wouldn’t trust these people as far as I could throw them.