Lots of folks are complaining about Donald Trump's Presidential Executive Order on the Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity most likely because it might actually expose some long ignored voter fraud. But the public reason for the complaints is because of quantity of voter information requested from the states. So resist, they insist.
They do have a point. Anytime a government agency gets access to our personal information it opens the door to abuse for political purposes. Heaven knows we saw that in the last administration.
But there's as easy remedy to that. Congress could enact a bill which would limit the use of the information for actual fraud investigations and detection. Go a step further and prohibit any use for political purposes with adequate sanctions against any employee or contractor who violates it.
However, that's only part of the reason. Democrats traditionally oppose anything that might reduce the number of votes regardless of whether those votes were legal or illegal.
I personally have not researched the level of election fraud currently existing. But plenty of others have. See, for example:
Why Are Democrats Afraid of the Election Integrity Commission?; and
Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem.
Furthermore, one doesn't have to look far to find anecdotal evidence. Here: Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats for example.
Finally, some irony. At least two states, Virginia and Maine, will sell you that information.
The swamp needs to be drained.
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