At least 44 of America’s 50 states have refused to hand over all or parts of their voter databases to the federal government, blowing a hole in President Donald Trump’s plans to crack down on what he calls “voter fraud.”
Last week, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent out letters to the leaders of all states, asking them to provide a bevy of data, including the names, addresses, birth dates and party affiliations of registered voters.
The response was far away from what Trump had hoped for as a CNN inquiry on Monday showed that most state leaders and voting boards across the country had either agreed to limited cooperation or turned down the request in its entirety.
Signed by commission vice chairman and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, the letter, even asked the states to reveal the voters’ felony convictions, military statuses, the last four digits of Social Security numbers and voting…