President Donald Trump ’s commission on election integrity is asking all 50 states and the District of Columbia for data from state voter rolls and California, Virginia and many other states have already sent a message right back refusing to do so.

That includes Mississippi’s Secretary of State who responded to the request, “They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great State to launch from."

The Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity is meant to come up with a set of recommendations “to increase the American people's confidence in the integrity of our election systems,” according to Vice President Mike Pence . Trump has been known to claim, without evidence, that at least 3 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election.

"The integrity of the vote is a foundation of our democracy. This bipartisan commission will review ways to strengthen that integrity in order to protect and preserve the principle of one person, one vote,” Pence told the committee, which is set to have its first meeting on July 19, in a call on Wednesday.

Kris Kobach, secretary of state for Kansas, is the vice chair of the commission, and he sent a letter to the states and District of Columbia on Wednesday asking for voter roll information as well as feedback on the current election apparatus.

https://twitter.com/JessicaHuseman/status/880499627052736514

The letter asks each secretary of state questions like:

How can the commission support state and local election administrators with regard to information technology security and vulnerabilities?

and

What evidence or information do you have regarding instances of voter fraud or registration fraud in your state?

Read the letter sent to Connecticut here, as posted by The Washington Post

But it also asks for a lot of specifics, including first, middle and last names of all registrants, addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of Social Security numbers if available, voter history from 2006 onward and other information on each voter in a state by July 14.

“The idea is to have the best data possible,” Kobach told The Kansas City Star. “The purpose of the commission is to quantify different forms of voter fraud and registration fraud and offer solutions. And so you have to have this data in order to do any meaningful research.”

It may prove difficult to do said meaningful research, because several states are already refusing to hand over the data, including California.

“I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally,” Secretary of State Alex Padilla said.

https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/status/880528507348033537

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, said his office has not received the letter from Kobach, but rejected the request anyway after seeing a letter forwarded from another state.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, like Padilla a Democrat, also refused the information.

https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/880558028138967040

Kentucky’s secretary of state, another Democrat, reacted the same way, calling the commission “a waster of taxpayer money.”

https://twitter.com/KySecofState/status/880588795527213056

Others responded by saying they’d present what’s already publicly available, but would not go beyond that. In some cases, that meant not meeting all the requests of the commission.

Those states include Indiana, Connecticut, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio and more than a dozen others. Here’s a look at some of their responses.

https://twitter.com/SOTSMerrill/status/880502960391946241

https://twitter.com/SecretaryLawson/status/880809294228320256

https://twitter.com/VermontSOS/status/880623260974682113

https://twitter.com/VermontSOS/status/880775557604134913

https://twitter.com/VermontSOS/status/880775864308441088

https://twitter.com/KySecofState/status/880588795527213056

https://twitter.com/OhioSOSHusted/status/880867283752542209

Bryan Dean, a spokesman for the Oklahoma State Election Board told newsOK.com that the state would also offer access to its public database which does not include social security numbers.

Alabama’s Republican secretary of state seemed torn after reading the request.

"We want to be helpful. We want to encourage (the commission),” Secretary of State John Merrill told AL.com. “We think they are trying to be helpful to the country but we're not sure we're going to provide everything they have asked for.“

"We want to make sure our voter information is protected," he added. "We want to be helpful but have to make sure information on our constituents is secure."

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a Republican, called the request “fair” and said his state looks forward to working with Kobach, according to the Kansas City Star. It also reports that Kobach, as Kansas’ secretary of state, will be providing the commission with all of the information for Kansas voters.

In California, voter registration rolls are not available to the general public, but state law allows certain voter information to be released to “a member of the California Legislature or U.S. Congress, to any candidate, to any committee for or against a proposed ballot measure and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic or political purpose or for governmental purposes.”

However, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and voter signatures are only accessible by the state of California.

We’ll update this page as reactions from other states become available.

Email: abby.hamblin@sduniontribune.com

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