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As Tropical Storm Emily bellows over the middle of the state, another storm quietly rages behind the scenes of Sunshine State politics. This storm is turning the eyes and heads of Florida’s political elite to a place that hasn’t gotten this much attention since November 2000 – our voting polls. Two months ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression throughout the country. Thus far, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, headed by Vice President Mike Pence, has not yet yielded any conclusive results. The discussion now centers on that many states have refused to adequately cooperate with the President’s commission. In a tweet, the President said this: “Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?” Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, appointed by Governor Rick Scott, complied with the commission’s request for voter-roll data this past Thursday. This is despite a lawsuit from the ACLU of Florida, which seeks to prevent the state from providing the information. The law is not expected to be on their side, given Florida’s “Sunshine Law” which labels voter-roll data as a matter of public record. "Today the Department of State pursuant to Florida law fulfilled the public records request that we received from the Presidential Advisory Commission," said Sarah Revell, Detzner's spokeswoman. "As we have said all along, we will follow Florida law and will only submit information that is already available and regularly provided to anyone who requests it." Many Democrats and voting-rights activists have reacted in fierce opposition both to the President’s claims about voter fraud – in which he suggests that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election – and the commission’s asking of voter-roll data from all 50 states, claiming that it is an attempt by the administration to subvert voting rights, target minorities, and/or perpetuate election fraud by using the data for targeted campaigning. During a recent 20-day period, over 1,700 voters took themselves off of the registration rolls in Florida alone. Political experts believe this is a result of media attention to the issue and promulgation of many extreme conspiracy’s leaving some uncomfortable with having their information in the public domain.