Merrill Leads Charge Vs. Trump Voter-Data Quest

"Merrill argued, that massive fraud never happened, and the commission's true agenda is to purge rolls of black and Latino voters believed to support Democrats."
It would be imperative to provide some kind of proof before making a statement of the above. Exactly how would the government of the U.S. purge these voters if they are citizens and live at the address they stated on their voting form. Ms.Merrill, your hyperbole is unwarranted. Please take off your tinfoil hat and cooperate. After all, the Russians may have loaded the voter rolls with surrogates.

Ms merrills position is widely and heavily documented. The leader of trumps commission is Kansas Secretary of State kris kobach. Poor guy can't find many cases to prosecute. Try ari bermans "give us the vote". Ms merrills position needs no justification and this committee is designed simply to undermine public confidence in the vote and support greater voting restrictions.

I agree with OhHum. How does a government purge its citizens' right to vote by collecting a list?

rhill - " Ms. Merrills position needs no justification and this committee is designed simply to undermine public confidence in the vote and support greater voting restrictions."
Public employees have a responsibility to be accurate when addressing a governmental issue as important as voting. Ms. Merrill needs to produce evidence that the Commission is trying to "..purge rolls of black and Latino voters believed to support Democrats." It's a very inflammatory statement with absolutely no evidence produced by her to back it up. Without such evidence her statement is fear mongering at its worse, as well as being totally irresponsible. Her documentation on the issue in total is based on conjecture and opinion.

Youre right. it is a potentially inflammatory statement to suggest that voting suppression on the grounds of race is afoot. but it is in fact what the federal court found in the voting restriction law in north carolina, and it is also the substance of the XV amendment. north carolina was not alone in recent efforts to remove political franchise from people who did not meet, even though maybe were not given an opportunity to meet, heightened restrictions. in fact similar laws have been overruled across the land in the last year. why? because the right to vote is understood to be a universal right, and specifically endorsed in multiple constitutional amendments (XV says you could not bar voters on accord of race. XXVI assigns the franchise at age 18.etc). ms. merrils refusal to cooperate is also not unique. most of the states in the land are refusing to cooperate, for various reasons. and recognize that this is a bipartisan refusal in a time when most state governments are controlled by republicans. i will say it again: republican governors and secretaries of state (the folks responsible for election law). are opposed to this fiction. and again, the committees chief cheer leader, kris kobach of kansas, has only been able to find one case of illegal voting in six years. there simply is no there there. so why the big fuss? simply put its a fiction. and its one that is working, as evinced by multiple states efforts to enact laws limiting the vote. i find certain kinds of speech deplorable, but i recognize the constitutional right to free speech, and cringe and its infringement. enfranchisement is the same kind of issue. we should stand up for the constitution. again i direct you to ari berman. there is actually lots of evidence, legislation, and judicial decisions on this subject. that you are not aware of said evidence is not a counterargument. there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in this country (i wont tell you its zero).