White House push to undermine midterms gathering steam
By Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg Opinion
The Department of Justice is assembling a first-ever national voter database. It has demanded that states turn over their complete voter registration lists; loaded with private information such as driver’s license and Social Security numbers linked to names, home addresses and dates of birth.
It has also turned the federal immigration database into what it calls a national “voter verification” tool to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.
Each of these moves evades federal privacy protections, but they might not seem objectionable to many Americans. After all, the government already knows much of this information, plus our TSA facial profile and our tax and business information.
But the nation’s Founders gave authority over election administration to the states precisely because they were worried about centralizing too much power in the federal government. And in the context of the Trump administration’s other activities — such as the surge of federal immigration agents into blue cities and the president’s unsubstantiated claims that “we have very dishonest elections” — the data grab is downright frightening.
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