Always read the small print.. Voter Fraud Commission warned ya they may disclose anyone’s info (name, address, email info, etc.) in concerns of voicing their opinion about their efforts and they did- PB/TK
Trump’s voter fraud commission turns transparency into intimidation: White House publishes personal information of concerned citizens – By Sofia Tesfaye / July 14 2017
“Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder warns in his book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” Just as election officials in several states have reported that voters are attempting to deregister to vote amid an effort by President Donald Trump’s newly established Commission on Election Integrity to gather personal information on voters, the White House published unredacted complaints from the public, some of whom included identifying personal information.
Not White House incompetence
The White House’s decision to publish the emails that contain the names, and in some cases, phone numbers, home addresses and places of employment of people concerned that Trump’s commission would make such information public was no accident
Trump’s voter fraud commission was set up to restore his bruised ego following his popular vote loss and to further a national voter suppression campaign. Lead by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — a longtime advocate of voter-identification laws with nativists ties — the panel became the focus of intense criticism after Kobach sent a June 28 letter requesting sensitive voter information from all 50 states, a request rejected even by many red states. Kobach recently told a federal judge that he’d anonymize voter roll data. Emails, however, weren’t part of the promise.
In a post on the White House website Thursday, the panel said that “any member of the public wishing to submit written comments for the Commission’s consideration may do so via email at ElectionIntegrityStaff@ovp.eop.gov.” But, the panel made clear, “the Commission may post such written comments publicly on our website, including names and contact information that are submitted.”
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/07/14/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-turns-transparency-into-intimidation-white-house-publishes-personal-information-of-concerned-citizens/
