The US state of Maryland has joined other states in declining a request from US President Donald Trump to turn over voter information to the administration after the 2016 presidential election.
Linda Lamone, the Old Line State’s administrator of elections wrote a letter to the vice chair of Trump’s advisory commission on election integrity, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, to reject the request.
“Disclosure of some of the information encompassed by your request may be prohibited under State and/or federal law,” Lamone (pictured below) wrote. “Accordingly, I am denying your request.”
Trump’s election panel has been rejected by more than half the states in its effort to prove the president’s widely debunked claim that millions of illegal votes made him lose the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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