Posted on 09/16/2021 10:33:43 PM PDT by bitt
Pennsylvania Republicans moved on Wednesday to seek personal information on every voter in the state as part of a brewing partisan review of the 2020 election results, rubber-stamping more than a dozen subpoenas for driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
The expansive request for personal information, directed at Pennsylvania’s Department of State and approved in a vote by Republicans on a State Senate subcommittee, is the first major step of the election inquiry. The move adds Pennsylvania to a growing list of states that have embarked on partisan-led reviews of the 2020 election, including a widely criticized attempt to undermine the outcome in Arizona’s largest county.
Democrats in the State Senate pledged to fight the subpoenas in court, saying at a news conference after the vote on Wednesday that the requests for identifiable personal information were an overreach, lacked authority and potentially violated federal laws protecting voter privacy.
“Senate Democrats, going forward, intend to take legal action against this gross abuse of power by filing a lawsuit, challenging in the courts, and to ask the courts to declare the Senate Republicans’ actions in violation of separation of power, as well as declaring that they had no authority to issue these subpoenas,” said State Senator Jay Costa, the minority leader. Democrats control several of the top offices in Pennsylvania — including those of governor, attorney general and secretary of state — and it was not immediately clear what legal basis they might have to challenge the subpoenas. Nor was it clear how the transfer of information would begin to take place, if it does proceed, or which people or entities involved in the review would control the information. While the review will be funded by taxpayers, its potential cost has yet to be revealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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“A chief concern of Democrats, beyond the subpoenas, was which people or companies might gain access to the stockpile of personal information of the nearly seven million Pennsylvanians who cast a ballot in the 2020 election.
State Senator Steven J. Santarsiero, a Democrat from the Philadelphia suburbs, pressed Mr. Dush on his selection process. Mr. Santarsiero asked specifically whether any of the vendors the Republicans are considering have ties to Sidney Powell, the lawyer who has popularized many false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
“The answer to that is I really don’t know, because it is not something that is relevant to my determination,” Mr. Dush responded.
“So it’s possible, then?” Mr. Santarsiero asked.
“It is absolutely possible,” Mr. Dush said.”
Well we just had about 50 people show up at the Comissioners meeting in my PA. city with the expressed demand there be an investigation on our election results.... Their response was they were waiting to hear from State.....so they now have States answer!
Where’s the AZ report?!?
NY Times loves government spying on us.
But only when it works in the favor of Democrats. If they didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
The investigations so far, from Powell, Wood, Rudy and Cyber Nitwits have been incompetent. I don’t know if that’s deliberate or not. They’ve looked at everything but the ballot harvesting.
One of the key guys was out with COVID for the last week or two. Now saying it will be released next Friday, the 24th.
The story is behind a paywall. I doubt that investigators are seeking financial or criminal records, which should remain private. So what “personal information” is being sought? Names and addresses? Voter registration status? Information on whether someone has moved, how recently, and perhaps out of state? Data on whether a registered voter is actually dead or alive? I would not put it past the NYT and the democrats to object to releasing any information at all that would be necessary to investigate vote fraud, and they will label it “personal information” as a smokescreen.
It is ‘absolutely possible’ that it will snow in Harrisburg today too.
Personal info? State drivers license? they have that already!
Partial SS# ? it is partial and required for many commercial transactions.
ny times? all the news that fits
Any “personal information” that’s being requested is public information.
I’m thinking that it’s nothing but propaganda.
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