Trump doxes people who wrote with concerns about leaks of their sensitive personal data

[AnthonyC]

@CLamb

I can’t find anywhere in the letter where this information is requested. It doesn’t request any information on how votes were cast. States don’t even keep track of individual voter choices. The voter id is separated from the choice at the time of tallying. Maybe I’m missing it. Please tell me where in the letter it is.

@GulliverFoyle

“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.”

I think perhaps CLamb is focusing on the “if publicly available under the laws of your state” much more than is warranted.

I’m no expert, but it reads to me like a boilerplate phrase they can’t not add, rather than a real part of the meaning of the letter. It reminds me (not because of the figures involved, but really truly just because of the mechanics of political and diplomatic language being easily misinterpreted by non-experts, and I would choose a different example if I could think of one right now) of Chamberlain’s ultimatum letter to Hitler on Poland. I’ve heard that supposedly, Hitler read it himself instead of having diplomats interpret it, and misinterpreted diplomatic politeness as hesitation and weakness, and decided to invade Poland.