Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.
The demand for this data is a McGuffin.
The feds already have the means to get this data without asking. Voter registration data, excluding ssn and birthdate, are sold by every state in the union. The feds already have the rest of the information. It’s a trivial exercise to pull all that data together from those sources.
So why are they making such a fuss over this? Clearly it’s not for analysis, because if that were the case, the public information is enough. And they control the private information… so what is really going on here?