Cuomo - tim to fire some folks!!
I am SO ashamed to be a New Yorker right now.
Itâs time NYC, Nassau and Westchester County secede from NYS!
From the linked article, I sure hope thereâs a reciprocal FOIA request made to the bogus âelection integrityâ panel so we know exactly what theyâre doing with our private information.
John Conklin, a spokesman for the Board of Elections, said that the Board had received a Freedom of Information Law request for the information from the Trump commission last Friday. Because it was specified that the data would be used for an âelections purpose,â there was no other possible exemption under FOIL that could be used by the Board to deny the commission the public information. The data, which is being sent to the Trump commission Wednesday afternoon, will not include either social security or drivers license numbers, Conklin said.
My highlight, but I have no doubt Kansan Kris Kobach will use that information for election purposes, specifically voter suppression purposes.
If you read the local press this doesnât come across as that terrible. The BoE received an FOI for the info and had little options but to comply. They determined the SS data was not subject to FOI disclosure and denied that. But itâs NY. Itâs not a swing state and there is little the GOP can there can do with the information Kobach will inevitably give them.
Wow. Iâm practically speechless. Whatâs up with that??? Who the fuck is on that election commission? I canât believe that theyâd be willing to do that without conclusive assurances that the information will be provably secured from identity theft. Not even a fight in protecting peopleâs privacy in the public interest? Iâd tar and feather those morons. RealIy.
I anticipate Kobach âaccidentallyâ finding all the info heâs gathered, hacked from his computer system, after some idiot clicks on some malware link, exposing everyoneâs data to the worldâŚbut most likely some Republican data base to manipulate the next election. Or, some low-level fool working with him to take home the data base home on his computer. I wouldnât trust these people as far as I could throw them.
How is this even possible NY?
a. Glad I donât live in New York.
b. How do they clean house at the Board of Elections?
âKobach issued a request to states for their voter roll data, as well as information on voter fraud and election security.â
This just shows that the GOP is totally unserious about making government smaller and more efficient.
If they really cared about saving tax dollars, theyâd just ask the states to email the data directly to Cozy Bear.
For years, any hint of a ânational registryâ of anything from handgun ownership to a national ID card was met with scorn by Republicans. Now this? A national âvoter database?â Where are the Ayn Rand and Libertarian Republicans now? Whereâs Rand Paul???
Agreed, brutus1910. Iâm curious to know who decided to share data with an illegitimate group? Russia has surely sent flowers and chocolates to Kobach for this kind act.
NahâŚKobach already said they would destroy the data after using it for their âstudies.â In other words, theyâll cook up bogus conclusions that voter fraud is a massive, widespread, every-election type problem and nobody will be able to check them on it or reproduce the data set in order to verify if anything theyâre saying is even remotely true. Itâll be a giant shell game of âbelieve this at face valueâ and 50% of the country will go right along with it because Murikkka and the pile of wet, smoldering ashes we call our Fourth Estate.
Hans von Spakovsky in particular is famous for misrepresenting data on voting to reach his intended conclusions and thatâs why heâs on this board:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/25/john-fund-and-hans-von-spakovsky-why-trumps-probe-voter-fraud-is-long-overdue.html (note that theyâre already convinced that voter fraud is a problem and that this is just a mater of quantifying it for themâŚand that most of it is based on the very different and somewhat unrelated data about voter registrations)
It goes on and on and on with this guy. He even fucking looks like he came out of Nazi central casting.
It all comes down to one thing and one thing only for the GOP/Teatrolls: Global Browning.
New York To Hand Over Most Voter Data To Bogus âElection Integrityâ Panel
FOOLS!!!
Whatâs most disturbing here is that NY is high on the short list of states, i.e., the âliberalâ ones, that KKKobach and von Spakovsky intend to claim are so overwhelmingly littered with voter fraud that their federal elections results cannot be trusted or verified and that Congress should consider federal interference in their processes and perhaps even a suspension of their ability to participate in electionsâŚor some such nonsense. Point being, if you donât understand that this is going to be used to target blue states for gross hyperbolic mischaracterizations of the level of voter fraud they experience, while simultaneously attempting to legitimize and validate the draconian voter suppression laws implemented in places like TX and NC, then you need your fucking head examined. These people are like Ned Stark placing his head on the block before Joffrey even surprises everyone with the call for his decapitation.
SorryâŚseason 7 kicked the obsession into high gear againâŚ
Why cooperate? The Donald will soon be gone and this bogus panel as well.
They only hate big government when it actually helps people otherwise, they are all for it
Thanks, Andrew. Youâve shown your true colors once again. I did not vote for you last time and that will not change in future.
Why is ANYBODY cooperating with this skunk on ANYTHING?
Fuckers. Upstate wingnuts are responsible for this.
I am NOT going to take this lying down.
Yeah, but now my information isnât secure - I donât trust these stupid fuckers for an instant.