A privacy advocacy group sued to block President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity from collecting voter information across the U.S. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — the commission’s vice chairman and most public face — has asked all 50 states to submit data on all their registered voters, including names, addresses, birth dates, political party affiliations if available, records of elections in which they’ve participated, plus the last four digits of their social security numbers. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a complaint filed Monday at a U.S. court in Washington, said the commission failed to first conduct a mandatory privacy impact assessment, without which its actions are unlawful and unconstitutional.
The center accused the commission of “seeking to assemble an unnecessary and excessive federal database of sensitive voter data from state record systems.” That’s a violation of “the informational privacy rights of millions of Americans, including members of the EPIC advisory board,” according to the complaint.
The Washington-based group wants the court to put a stop to the information gathering and order the blue ribbon commission to give back any data it’s already received until it meets the assessment requirement.
Full Article: Privacy Rights Group Sues Trump’s Election Integrity Panel – Bloomberg.