Article snippet: Posted at 7:00 pm on July 10, 2017 by Susan Wright So what kind of information was the Trump administration’s voter integrity commission looking for? The commission reached out to states to get names, partial social security numbers, birthdates, voting history, and whatever other information your local Board of Elections may have on hand. The requests began last month, and the immediate reaction from the majority of states was: NO! At last check, 45 out of 50 states had refused the request. Now, the commission vice chairman has announced that attempts to collect data have been put on hold, while a judge decides if the commission was following data privacy laws. The news comes after the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit to stop the commission. They feel the commission has been negligent by skipping over certain protections for the information of the American people. The goal of the commission was to compare the collected information with what they have on existing federal databases, checking for any who may be on the voter rolls who should not be. Opponents fear the information will be used to dump infrequent, but otherwise eligible voters from the rolls. Link to the full article to read more