JUDICIAL WATCH - JW DIRECTOR OF ELECTION INTEGRITY PROJECT BOB POPPER: CRITICISM OF TRUMP ELECTION COMM. IS "NONSENSE"

Published on Jul 6, 2017
JW Senior Attorney Robert Popper is the Director of JW's Election Integrity Project. Prior to joining Judicial Watch, Mr. Popper worked for eight years, five as deputy chief of the Voting Section, in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. He also served as counsel in a successful constitutional challenge alleging racial segregation in the design of New York’s congressional districts, and successfully defended the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

He developed a legal standard relating to gerrymandering that is widely cited by experts and was adopted by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. He has testified before the Missouri Senate Redistricting Committee and the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee; and he has spoken about voting rights to a conference of U.S. Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center, to state officials, and to countless local community representatives. 

"Trump's Election Integrity Commission has asked states for their voter rolls in order to collect data on voter registration practices...What people need to understand is that this is a very ordinary request. Judicial Watch routinely asks states for their voter registration rolls--and we get them." --Director of JW Election Integrity Project Robert Popper


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Trump's Election Integrity Commission has asked states for their voter rolls in order to collect data on voter registration practices. This has been variously reported in the media and in extreme cases, it has been reported as a threat.

What people need to understand is that this is a very ordinary request. Judicial Watch routinely asks states for their voter registration rolls. And we get them. States like North Carolina, New Jersey, and Florida provide them for free, and other states require a fee of anywhere from a hundred to a thousand dollars. 

Private marketing groups get ahold of these voter registrations all the time; they're for sale, they're exchanged. The idea that the Trump administration is doing something outrageous is nonsense. What they're doing is gathering data on voter registration that we've needed for years. 

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