I have my doubts about your good faith, but I’m engaging against my better instincts because of the importance of the issue.
“In addition, in order for the Commission to fully analyze vulnerabilities and issues related to voter registration and voting, I am requesting that you provide to the Commission the publicly available voter roll data for Connecticut, including, if publicly available under the laws of your state, the full first and last names of all registrants, middle names or initials if available, addresses, dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information.”
This is, plain and simple, the aggregation of a database to facilitate GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression including, as @One_Brown_Mouse already noted, the intimidation implicit in knowing your information will be collected by the political officers of a central government entirely under the control of a single party (instead of the 42 year old non-partisan Federal Election Commission agency). Trump’s signing of Executive Order 13799 was probably fueled by his own inability to believe he isn’t loved by almost all “real American” (AKA straight, white Americans). He ain’t exactly a chess master. But smarter GOP politicians in his orbit (Kris Kobach and his ilk) know full well they’re consolidating and industrializing gerrymandering, and hope to do it fast enough to stop them from losing control in next year’s mid-term elections or in 2020.
The Founding Fathers couldn’t have foreseen the internet, but they explicitly reserved powers not explicitly given to the Federal government for the States. The GOP’s end-run around that check and balance to centralize their rigging of elections is no accident. They’re committed to building a perpetual one-party state, and that means deploying every means of stopping registered Democrats and independents from voting or having their vote count. The Alt-Right is a ruthless machine that’s already eaten the Republican Party and is aiming for our democracy with remorseless single-mindedness.
ETA: If I’m wrong and @One_Brown_Mouse is correct that you were debating in good faith, then I apologize for initially losing my temper at you.
