NYTIMES (Zach Montague) - Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.
A Homeland Security investigation found Democratic-led states shared sensitive driver records with nonprofit organizations despite challenging federal access to similar voting data.
ERIC requires that member states never share data indicating that an individual on voter rolls is not a citizen.
The Department of Homeland Security has referred potential Driver’s Privacy Protection Act violations to the Justice Department, alleging that a nonprofit organization misused millions of citizens' sensitive driver data for voter outreach campaigns.
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential voter data.
It is unclear how the appeal process will turn out, but the rule gives states 30 days prior to the Nov. 3 election to notify USPS if they plan to comply.
The department said the request was part of a larger effort to ensure that states were properly maintaining their voter rolls and removing ineligible voters.
By Monica Showalter Turns out a hacker got his hands on more than 600,000 Maricopa County voter registrations, including sensitive personal information on many.