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Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com)
From a report: When the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent a letter to all 50 states seeking personal, identifying information on all voters in the US, at least 44 states refused in some part. Trump signed an executive order last May to create this commission while claiming that millions of people had voted illegally. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has taken issue with this request, as well, and has filed a lawsuit accusing the Commission of violating the privacy of American voters. EPIC also asserts that the original request asks states to send the data to a non-secure website, making the data vulnerable to identity theft and financial fraud. Not to mention political agendas. EPIC is also seeking information about "the failure to conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment," and has filed for a temporary restraining order "to block the Commission's efforts."
The Democrats didn't raise any sticks about the election itself being hacked, you just made that up. The Russia issue relates to things they did to influence the election, such as releasing Clinton's emails without releasing Trump's, and some peripheral issues relating to the possibility they might have been planning to disrupt the election itself by manipulating voting lists, not actually changing the results.
But yeah, let's check them. Let's get an independent commission to investigate, made up on non-controversial experts who aren't pushing an agenda, and have a documented history of lying and bad faith when pushing that agenda in the past. Let's make it legal, and ensure that requests for data come with guarantees that data will not be misused.
In other words, let's do the exact damned opposite of what Trump's investigation is doing.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Project Veritas? You mean that group run by James O'Keefe, who doctored the videos that led to ACORN being shut down?
The same James O'Keefe, who, with a couple colleagues) attempted to solicit voter fraud from staffers for multiple Senators? (Those staffers didn't fall for it, and advised the trio that what they were doing was illegal.)
The same James O'Keefe who was charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony at the offices of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu? (The charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor which O'Keefe and his colleagues pled guilty to.)
Hrm... I don't know, that's not exactly an "engendering a level of trust" sort of guy.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.