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Sat Jul 15, 2017, 08:06 AM Jul 2017

Trumps voter fraud commission turns transparency into intimidation: White House publishes personal [View all]

Trump’s voter fraud commission turns transparency into intimidation: White House publishes personal information of concerned citizens
How voter suppressionist Kris Kobach’s latest move is closer to malevolence than it is incompetence
SOPHIA TESFAYE FRIDAY, JUL 14, 2017 04:24 PM CDT

Just as election officials in several states have reported that voters are attempting to deregister to vote amid an effort by President Donald Trump’s newly established Commission on Election Integrity to gather personal information on voters, the White House published unredacted complaints from the public, some of whom included identifying personal information.

Not White House incompetence

The White House’s decision to publish the emails that contain the names, and in some cases, phone numbers, home addresses and places of employment of people concerned that Trump’s commission would make such information public was no accident.

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/14/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-turns-transparency-into-intimidation-white-house-publishes-personal-information-of-concerned-citizens/

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