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.
