Thread: California Refuses to Share Data with Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission

by ASSEMBLYMAN TIM DONNELLY
30 Jun 2017
Sacramento, CA

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has refused to turn over voting data to President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Padilla said he denied the request Thursday because it would only serve to “legitimize false claims of massive election cheating last fall.”

Padilla’s refusal to hand over the requested data — which would have included the names, addresses, political party and voting history of California’s nearly 20 million voters — comes after he declared his absolute confidence that no voter fraud exists in California shortly after the election.

The vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Kris Kobach, sent letters to every state on Wednesday requesting “information that he said would help the group examine rules that either ‘enhance or undermine the American people’s confidence in the integrity of federal elections processes,” the Times reports.

Padilla made it clear that he considers the commission illegitimate.

“I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally,” he said in a written statement published by the Times. “California’s participation would only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud made by the President, the Vice President, and Mr. Kobach.”

Concerns about voter fraud in California have been raised since it began handing out drivers licenses to millions of illegal aliens a few years ago.

Critics urge that the quickest way to eliminate concerns over mass voter fraud in California would be to cross-reference jury duty response cards and DMV records against voting history. Other, much smaller states that have done this have found an extraordinarily large number of ineligible individuals registered, and many voting.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports that “[a]ccording to California’s Voter Bill of Rights, ‘voter information may be provided to a candidate for office, a ballot measure committee, or other person for election, scholarly, journalistic, political, or governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State.’”

Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers cannot be shared.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...commission-no/

As of Friday afternoon, at least 27 states had publicly expressed reservations or legal barriers to turning over all of the requested information, particularly with regard to the privacy of social security numbers, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states. Several others, including South Carolina and Arkansas, had not yet received Kobach's letter.

@ Trump administration wants info on voters, 27 states balk at handing over data

Now, why does't that surprise me?

California is a disaster and the Dems hold on to there power and strong hold of all government offices by the illegal alien voters.

Same goes for New York, Chicago and Maryland and they think the rest of the country is stupid!

Originally Posted by lorrie

Now, why does't that surprise me?

California is a disaster and the Dems hold on to there power and strong hold of all government offices by the illegal alien voters.

Same goes for New York, Chicago and Maryland and they think the rest of the country is stupid!

I couldn't have said that better myself.

by JOEL B. POLLAK
3 Jul 2017

The Election Integrity Project (EIP), a California-based volunteer organization that aims to increase transparency in the voting process, has slammed a decision by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to refuse to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity in its efforts to investigate claims of voter fraud.

In a statement, the EIP said (original emphasis):

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, along 25+ other Secretaries of State (SOS) has refused to cooperate with the bipartisan President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. He was asked to simply supply the state’s voter list to the Commission so it can investigate practices that could lead to improper or fraudulent registrations and voting. The requested information is, for the most part, public information, and no more than any candidate, education organization, research organization, among others, are privy to.

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Secretary Padilla states that he does not want to “legitimize already debunked claims of massive voter fraud.” California’s Election Integrity Project (EIP) asks not only when, where and how did the “debunking” take place, but more importantly, why protest an opportunity to conclusively prove through third party investigation his assertion that there is no election fraud in California? What does the Secretary have to hide?

Padilla was among the first state officials to reject the request for voter information from Kansas Secretary of Staet Kris Kobach, who is vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Padilla told the Los Angeles Times that he did not want to “legitimize” claims of voter fraud in California that he called “false.”

EIP President Linda Paine told Breitbart News that the organization takes privacy concerns seriously. Nevertheless, she said: “The secretaries of state can provide needed information while still protecting the privacy of voters.”

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...a-hiding-data/