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Tuesday 19 of March 2024

Judge Clears Way for Trump Commission to Collect Voter Data


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks at his wife Melania as they cast their votes at PS-59, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in New York,Photo: AP/Evan Vucci
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks at his wife Melania as they cast their votes at PS-59, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in New York,Photo: AP/Evan Vucci
The commission asked states last month to provide names, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers

CONCORD – A federal judge has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud to resume collecting detailed voter information from the states.

The commission asked states last month to provide publicly available data including names, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers, but it later told them to hold off until a judge ruled on a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington.

In a ruling Monday, the judge denied the advocacy group’s request to block the data collection. Similar lawsuits are pending in Texas, Florida and New Hampshire.

A news agency count of states’ responses earlier this month found 17 plus Washington, D.C., didn’t plan to provide any information.