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The reviews of your new commission on election integrity are rolling in, and they’re not good.
“Disingenuous.”Repugnant.” “At best a waste of taxpayer money.” “A tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.”
State officials across the country responded to the commission’s slapdash request last week for detailed voter data in the manner previously reserved for emailed pleas from a Nigerian prince.
 

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The reviews of President Trump’s new commission on election integrity are rolling in, and they’re not good.
“Disingenuous.”Repugnant.” “At best a waste of taxpayer money.” “A tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.”
State officials across the country responded to the commission’s slapdash request last week for detailed voter data in the manner previously reserved for emailed pleas from a Nigerian prince.
Delete, said secretaries of state in Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, California — more than 20 states refused to comply, red and blue and every hue in between. “They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico,” Mississippi’s secretary of state, Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, responded.


What triggered the bipartisan backlash? A letter from the commission — whose ostensible goal is to restore Americans’ confidence in their elections — asked states to turn over by July 14 all publicly available information about their voters, including names, addresses, dates of birth, political party and voting history, criminal record, military status and the last four digits of their Social Security number.


Some of this information, like Social Security numbers, isn’t public at all. But even when it is, many states reasonably restrict who can have it and for what reasons. Such restrictions wouldn’t apply once the data is in the commission’s hands, creating major threats to privacy and a tempting target for hackers.
“It is wildly irresponsible for a federal entity to ask for all of this information without first discussing how it will be used and whether collecting it for those purposes is a good idea,” said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, who has studied the incidence of voting fraud in depth and found virtually none.
For voter-fraud ideologues like Kris Kobach, the vice chairman of the commission, who signed last week’s letter, the absence of evidence serves only as proof that researchers aren’t looking hard enough. In his other job as Kansas’s secretary of state, Mr. Kobach has made a career of detecting and prosecuting a supposed national fraud epidemic. His efforts have yielded a total of nine convictions, mostly of people voting in two states.
That hasn’t deterred Mr. Kobach or his fellow travelers, who have been on their quixotic crusade for years. Until now, the damage they have done has been mostly local — fostering voter-suppression measures in states like North Carolina and Texas targeting minorities and other Democratic-leaning groups. But thanks to a president with a fragile ego and a bottomless appetite for conspiracy theories, they have weaponized their paranoia at the federal level.
On Saturday, Mr. Trump tweeted a familiar refrain at the states that refused to comply with the commission’s request: “What are they trying to hide?” The most convincing answer to that comes not from voting-rights advocates but from state and local election officials, Republican and Democratic, who oversee the actual mechanics of voting and who are best positioned to identify any fraud. Over and over, these officials, in no coordination with one another, have attested to the integrity of their elections.
The better question is what Mr. Trump and his allies so desperately hope to find. Remember that the commission was reverse-engineered to provide a veneer of legitimacy to Mr. Trump’s bogus claims that millions of noncitizens voted in 2016 — his explanation for losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million. (One would think that sitting in the Oval Office might have eased his pain.) But the circumstances of its creation are secondary to its real goal — to make voting harder for millions of Americans, on the understanding that Republicans win more elections when fewer people vote. According to the election-law expert Rick Hasen, the commission will probably aim to roll back parts of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the motor-voter law, which has registered millions of voters.
The real problem, of course, isn’t fraud. It’s low turnout — in a good year, nearly half of all eligible American citizens fail to vote. As the nation marks 241 years of independence, the most pressing voting issue should be getting those tens of millions of nonparticipating Americans registered and to the polls, so that their voices can be heard. If the paranoid voter-fraud crusaders devoted a fraction of their inquisitorial energy to solving that vexing problem, now that would be something to celebrate.