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Mr. Scorpio
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January 23, 2018
These motherfuckers have gone too far...
Trump's sham voter commission asked Texas to flag 'all Hispanic surnames' in voter records
By Jen Hayden
Monday Jan 22, 2018 · 2:56 PM EST
Donald Trump and his racism have time and time again transcended words and been turned into real life policy. He turned his phony voting commission into the incompetent hands of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history. Kobach and the commission were widely mocked when they demanded every state send their full voter registration records to the commission for review.
Emphasis added and it bears repeating. Donald Trump’s phony voter commission intended to specifically target citizens with Hispanic surnames in the state with the second highest Latino population in America. No doubt they intended to run these names through Kobach’s shady, discredited Crosscheck program, which conveniently flags minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats, and puts them on suspended voter rolls.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/22/1735043/-Trump-s-phony-voter-commission-asked-Texas-to-flag-all-Hispanic-surnames-in-voter-records
By Jen Hayden
Monday Jan 22, 2018 · 2:56 PM EST
Donald Trump and his racism have time and time again transcended words and been turned into real life policy. He turned his phony voting commission into the incompetent hands of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history. Kobach and the commission were widely mocked when they demanded every state send their full voter registration records to the commission for review.
President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show.
In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.
White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.
In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms.
White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.
Emphasis added and it bears repeating. Donald Trump’s phony voter commission intended to specifically target citizens with Hispanic surnames in the state with the second highest Latino population in America. No doubt they intended to run these names through Kobach’s shady, discredited Crosscheck program, which conveniently flags minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats, and puts them on suspended voter rolls.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/22/1735043/-Trump-s-phony-voter-commission-asked-Texas-to-flag-all-Hispanic-surnames-in-voter-records
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