New York will comply with the White House's request to share its voter data with President Trump's commission on voter fraud, the state Board of Elections announced Wednesday.

Peter Kosinski, a Republican, announced during Wednesday's meeting that the board's two Democratic and two Republican commissioners had agreed to share the state's voter roll data with the White House after the state received a Freedom of Information Law request for voter records.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had refused the request for voter roll data in June, which asked for public information as well as private information such as voters' social security numbers.

Cuomo said at the time that he refused, "to perpetuate the myth voter fraud played a role in our election," and wouldn't share any voter roll information with the commission.

The state voter roll database is controlled by the Board of Elections, however, which is not under the control of the New York governor's office. On Wednesday the Board announced it would turn over the already public voter roll data.

"To be clear, the original letter from the President's Election Commission requested information that the Commission is not legally entitled to obtain. Accordingly, our administration rejected that request because it not only violated privacy rights - but also state law," Cuomo said in a statement Wednesday following the Board's announcement.

"Our position remains unchanged and we will continue to deny requests for sensitive personal data about New York residents, which is protected under the law. We will never provide private voter information to anyone, especially a politically-motivated organization seeking to perpetuate the myth of voter fraud."

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Cuomo wasn't the only New York politician to come out against sharing sensitive voter roll data with the Trump administration. Politico reported in July that General Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned the board that it would be inappropriate to share voter information with the commission.

“The Commission is charged with studying the integrity of the registration and voting processes used in federal elections,” Heastie wrote to the board in July. “The New York State Assembly Majority interprets that to mean their mission is not specific to any election and, therefore, New York’s voter registration data cannot be shared with the Commission.”

President Trump created the commission in May to investigate his baseless accusation that millions of illegal votes were cast during the 2016 election. Dozens of state election officials from both parties have rebuked this claim, saying there is no evidence of significant voter fraud.

Updated at 9:53 p.m.