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[KSweeley]

Link: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-blackwell-voter-commission-20170709-story.html

The LA Times just revealed today, July 9th that Trump's voter fraud panel is bipartisan and one member is a former Ohio official who "accidentally released" Social Security numbers and voter information with Social Security Numbers as well:

July 9, 2017

The Republican gubernatorial primary was just weeks away, and then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell had his sights set on securing the nomination.

Blackwell had served as mayor of Cincinnati and state treasurer before becoming Ohio’s top elections official, so a bid for governor in 2006 seemed a logical next step in his political career.

But in March of that year, his office caused a stir: The full Social Security numbers of 1.2 million Ohio voters were posted accidentally on the secretary of state’s website.

A month later, in a separate incident, Blackwell’s office inadvertently distributed voter lists with the Social Security numbers of 5.7 million voters. The numbers, by law, are supposed to remain private.

“It wasn’t good at all,” said former Ohio Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in an interview. “Sloppy … that’s what it was.”

While the two blunders didn’t prevent Blackwell from securing the nomination that May, he went on to lose the governor’s contest to Strickland. That contest and the Social Security debacle combined to make Blackwell well-known — at least briefly — outside Ohio. Now, it appears he’s about to step into the national spotlight again.

Blackwell, 69, has been tapped to serve on the Trump administration’s bipartisan voter fraud commission, an endeavor election officials nationwide have called a waste of time.

The panel, officially called the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked secretaries of state nationwide to provide voters’ personal information, including names, addresses and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The commission has faced intense pushback from both Democrats and Republicans, while a watchdog group has filed a lawsuit arguing the commission’s request breaches privacy laws.

Can anyone find a full list of the people who are on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity? I don't understand exactly why there's Democrats on this panel if there's "intense pushback from ... Democrats."

 

[jack_package_200]

He finds the best people

 

[Volimar]

Ken Blackwell....what a shithead.

Can anyone find a full list of the people who are on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity? I don't understand exactly why there's Democrats on this panel if there's "intense pushback from ... Democrats."

I mean, if it's going to happen you want some half decent people there for damage control.

 

[Oersted]

Can we stop calling it voter fraud panel? Because its anything but that.

 

[gimmmick]

This shit show of a "panel" must be shooting fish in a barrel for Russian hackers.

 

[KSweeley]

He finds the best people

Trump chose a person from Maryland that had little elections experience: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-frosh-trump-voter-fraud-20170703-story.html

Maryland Deputy Secretary of State Luis E. Borunda resigned from the panel Trump convened to conduct the investigation. Borunda, a former Baltimore County school board member with little elections experience, was appointed to the commission last week.

Doug Mayer, a spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan, said Borunda joined Trump’s 15-member bipartisan panel “on his own” and was not appointed by the Republican governor.

“He informed our office he has resigned from the commission,” Mayer said. Borunda did not respond to a request for comment.

 

[Steel]

Can we stop calling it voter fraud panel? Because its anything but that.

Well, the members of the panel are frauds. They are also voters.

 

[KSweeley]

Well, the members of the panel are frauds. They are also voters.

Can it be confirmed that all 15 members of this panel are voters?

 

[BradC00]

how do you accidentally post that kind of shit...