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• Non-compliance:

  Given the mishmash of information Trump's commission will receive, it's unclear how useful it will be or what the commission will do with it. Trump established the commission to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 elections, but Democrats have blasted it as a biased panel that is merely looking for ways to suppress the vote.
  
  New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, a Democrat who is a member of Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, defended the request Friday. He said the commission expected that many states would only partially comply because open records laws differ from state to state.
  
  "If only half the states agree, we'll have to talk about that. I think, whatever they do, we'll work with that," said Gardner, adding that the commission will discuss the survey at its July 19 meeting.
  
  He said he has received calls from unhappy constituents who said they didn't want Trump to see their personal information.
  
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  [caption for video] President Trump has geared up efforts to investigate voter fraud, across the country, however according to Buzz Feed News more than 20 states as of Friday are refusing to participate. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, said in a statement Friday regarding a request for data on voters by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity: "My reply would be: They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi is a great state to launch from.
  
  "But this is not private, and a lot of people don't know that," he said.

• Buzz Aldrin looks askance.  Raw Story via AlterNet and Crooks and Liars, respectively.
• Actually, the correct response to this sort of thing is "You need to read less Philip K. Dick, you credulous ass."