White House and Texas officials said the state’s voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff. The voting panel said it would destroy all voter data it had gathered, without detailing any data purchases. Trump created the voting commission after repeatedly suggesting that millions of illegal voters cost him the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election. His lawyers with American Oversight, a liberal watchdog group, filed a Texas public records request Friday for communications between state voting officials and the now-defunct voting commission. Nearly a quarter of Texas’s 15.1 million-plus registered voters have Hispanic surnames, or almost 3.6 million people, Taylor said.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 17:39 UTC