Judge Clears Way For Trump’s Election Fraud Commission To Collect Voter Data

FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo, voters cast their ballots in the Illinois primary in Hinsdale, Ill. Illinois voters head to the polls next week to cast critical primary ballots for offices from U.S. president to county recorder. Ahead of the contests, a government watchdog group teamed up with a Chicago information technology company to examine voter records and Census data over four elections, an analysis they say hasn't been as easily accessible to the public before now. Officials with Illinois Campaign for Political Reform hope it willl contribute to more voter participation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo, voters cast their ballots in the Illinois primary in Hinsdale, Ill. Illinois voters head to the polls next week to cast critical primary ballots for offices from U.S. preside... FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo, voters cast their ballots in the Illinois primary in Hinsdale, Ill. Illinois voters head to the polls next week to cast critical primary ballots for offices from U.S. president to county recorder. Ahead of the contests, a government watchdog group teamed up with a Chicago information technology company to examine voter records and Census data over four elections, an analysis they say hasn't been as easily accessible to the public before now. Officials with Illinois Campaign for Political Reform hope it willl contribute to more voter participation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) MORE LESS
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud to resume collecting detailed voter information from the states.

The commission asked states last month to provide publicly available data including names, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers, but it later told them to hold off until a judge ruled on a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington.

In a ruling Monday, the judge denied the advocacy group’s request to block the data collection. Similar lawsuits are pending in Texas, Florida and New Hampshire.

An Associated Press count of states’ responses earlier this month found 17 plus Washington, D.C., didn’t plan to provide any information.

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  1. Funny. I just came back to post the article what you just posted.

    So maybe there’s … some hope?

  2. There is a potential upside to this, although we progressives would have to become truly blood thirsty to implement it.

    When we Dump Donnie and Repulse the Republicans, we can use that database to deny medical care to anyone who voted for the Cheeto Jesus.

    Elections have consequences. These morons have always counted on our saving their worthless asses. Let them die. Average IQ will rise 10 points for the entire country. And we won’t be supporting multigenerational families of drug addicted losers who’ve figured out how to be successful racists, without the necessity of actually getting off their a&&es& and doing real work. Unlike the rest of us, who are supporting them.

  3. The judge said Trump’s bogus election fraud commission can ask for personal information, but does that mean the states have to comply with their requests?

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