The following article by Erin Golden was posted on the StarTribune website June 30, 2017:
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said Thursday that he’s “troubled” by a sweeping request from President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission for detailed information about every voter in all 50 states, and he made no guarantee he will comply with it.
Simon said in an interview that his office is reviewing legal issues raised by the request for full voter roll data, including the name, address, party affiliation, last four digits of Social Security numbers and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in every state.
“They’re asking for a lot of stuff, and it’s a lot of personal stuff, on literally millions of people in Minnesota,” Simon said.
A DFLer, Simon said he’s concerned that the Republican officials overseeing the commission, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence, have been what he called “loud and proud” in their support of Trump’s sensational claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.
“This has the look and feel to me of a sort of precooked, predetermined outcome,” Simon said. Continue reading “Minnesota election chief skeptical of Trump panel’s voter information request”