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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."
Evidence...? ...crickets...
Also "hundreds"? That sounds like big problem which could seriously impact elections. In Tuvalu.
Someone had to do it.
Look, the problem is that we know at least 39 states were hacked, and voting machines in specific counties and precincts were disabled, and attempts were made to disenroll American voters, by Russia.
But the commission is correct that the Russian White House is trying to make it worse.
Expect new actions after Putin's lapdog gets his new marching orders from his master at the G-20.
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I particularly like Mississippi's response to the commission
Quoted in part: "They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great State to launch from."
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Translation: "We have an open tab at the GSA to run this farce of a commission but we're too lazy to cross-collate the publicly available information with other non-election data sources, so you do it. Then upload it to the webserver we payed the cousin of some campaign contributor some insane amount of money to set up, which, by the way, has no security whatsoever."
To which the proper reply is "get stuffed".
Someone had to do it.