As election officials across the country push back against a wide-ranging request for voter data from a federal panel investigating election fraud, they may be getting too much credit ― or blame ― for resisting President Donald Trump. Much of the news coverage, including HuffPost’s, has lumped together all 40-plus states declining to turn over some kind of information. A number of states are turning over any of the requested information that is already publicly available. “Kobach asked only for publicly available information among a number of categories. It risks “further politicizing election administration.”CORRECTION: Minnesota is one of the states refusing entirely to comply with the commission’s request.

Source: Huffington Post July 06, 2017 17:15 UTC