President Trump’s voting commission again asks states for voter data, vows to protect records

President Donald Trump’s voting commission, given a judge’s approval to resume seeking voter data, has issued another request asking states for information and vowing to keep the details confidential. The voting panel has come under intense scrutiny and faced a wave of lawsuits since making a sweeping request in June for reams of “publicly-available voter roll data,” including names, addresses, dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers. State leaders from both parties have expressed privacy concerns about potentially revealing personal information, while some officials and voting experts also have pushed back against the commission, which was formed by Trump after he repeatedly claimed — without evidence — that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote in last year’s presidential election.