Trump’s voter suppression commission

Friend, Donald Trump’s voter suppression commission is “laying the groundwork for voter suppression, plain & simple.” The commission has not even had its first meeting but its vice chair – one of the worst perpetrators of voter suppression in the country, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach – just made a dangerous, unprecedented demand to state election officials: give me your voter rolls, now. State election officials are under no obligation to provide the data Kobach is demanding. Officials from at least 18 states have already indicated they will at least partially refuse to comply with the commission's demand. Officials in every state should wholly reject the request and refuse to provide even one piece of data to Kobach and his right-wing voter suppression commission. [Tell governors and state election officials: Defend our democracy. Refuse to share your state’s voter data with Trump’s voter suppression commission.]( [SIGN THE PETITION]( The scale of private data that Kobach requested is staggering. He requested: "the full first and last names of all registrants, middle names or initials if available, addresses, dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information." Voting rights advocates worry that Kobach is trying to use the data to expand his reckless and discriminatory Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program. Crosscheck is supposed to prevent double voting, but it encourages and enables voter purges. The system kicks two hundred eligible voters, often young people and African-American, Latinx and Asian-American voters, off the rolls for every double vote it finds. Only 32 states participate in Crosscheck now. Having 50 states’ data would allow Kobach to purge voters nationwide. No state should help him do that. [Tell governors and state election officials: Refuse to share your state’s voter data with Trump’s voter suppression commission.]( [SIGN THE PETITION]( As of yesterday, Democratic and Republican officials in at least 18 states from California to Mississippi have said they will refuse to comply with the commission’s data request. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has said he will not share anything with the commission because “participation would only serve to legitimize [Trump, Pence and Kobach’s] false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud.” Some states have said they will partially comply with the request while protecting private voter data. Unless they are required by law to do so, no state should enable or legitimize Trump's attempts to steal the vote by sharing any data with Kobach. [Add your name to tell governors and state election officials to refuse to let any of their state’s voter data be used to undermine democracy.]( [SIGN THE PETITION]( Thanks for helping protect the right to vote. Heidi Hess, Senior Campaign Manager CREDO Paid for by CREDO. Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.