The states that won’t provide all of their voter data grew to a group of at least 44 by Wednesday, including some that said they would provide nothing. Then U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in November 2016. “Commission staff will download the files … onto White House computers,” he wrote, adding that an employee of the vice president’s office will be responsible with White House information technology staff for collecting and storing any data. The government defended its request for voter details saying the data was “publicly available” and that the commission planned to “de-identify” sensitive data before releasing documents. It also said the voter commission was a presidential advisory panel not subject to federal privacy review requirements.

Source: Washington Post July 06, 2017 17:48 UTC