July 2, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
Here's the latest update: 29 states have refused to give
your Election Integrity Commission private data from their voter rolls. Some of the responses are priceless. Here's one from Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi
Secretary of State.
"They
can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great state to
launch
from. Mississippi residents should
celebrate Independence Day and our
state's
right to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral
processes."
He sounds like a man who takes his job seriously and, by the
way, he's a Republican.
As is your usual response to people disagreeing with you,
you doubled down on your rhetoric and began tweeting…taking
your complaints directly to the people (because they are the only ones who
truly understand you). You said,
"Numerous
states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished
VOTER FRAUD
PANEL. What are they trying to
hide?"
Let's be clear about something, this is not a distinguished
panel and putting it's name in ALL CAPS doesn't make it look more
distinguished. Plus, maybe you forgot, but it's not called the VOTER FRAUD
PANEL. It's called the Election Integrity
Commission and the non-compliant states are not trying to "hide"
anything. They are simply trying to
protect the right to privacy that all American citizens have (not
because of their ethnicity or party affiliation, but just because they are
citizens).
Lucky for us our country does have a truly distinguished voter fraud panel. It's called the Election Registration
Information Center (ERIC). It's a group
of 20 states and the District of Columbia that shares voter data for the
purposes of maintaining election integrity.
Isn't that awesome? You didn't even have to go and start a new group…we
already had one! And ERIC has
"layers of physical, technical and legal security" to protect it's
data whereas your commission has none.
In fact, the two biggest complaints lobbied by the Secretaries of State
were that your commission could not explain how it would use the data and also
couldn't explain how the data would be safeguarded. ERIC, on the other hand, has the best
security money can buy and is a non-profit governed by a Board of Directors who
have been doing this for a very long time.
So much more professional that a commission slapped together out of
pique by an executive order with job titles handed out like prizes to nutters
with no experience and chips on their shoulders. Don't you think?
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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