Arkansas alone has supplied voter data to Trump. What data? Mark Martin's own illustrates

Here's an important story from Mother Jones not unrelated to Donald Trump's dragnet for voter data.

It's about a systematic effort by ideological lawyers to purge voter rolls, coincidentally in areas with heavy minority populations. Problematic addresses and low election participation are the wedges being used to take tens of thousands off voter rolls. Should the affected voters discover this when they get motivated to participate in, say, an important presidential election, they'll be out of luck.

A favored tactic is mailing cards to verify addresses. If they aren't returned, the vote purgers try to get names stricken. This "caging" was employed by now Arkansas Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin in Florida to help elect George W. Bush. Casualties in that vote suppression included many black military members who were serving overseas when the address verifications went out.

Imagine what Kris Kobach, the vote-suppressing Kansas secretary of state, can do as vice chair of the Trump "election integrity commission" which is trying to assemble a vast data bank on every registered voter in America.

This data drive has prompted resistance from most states, including those with Republicans in charge of the voter machinery. One exception: Secretary of State Mark Martin of Arkansas. As we reported, he transferred all public voter information to Kobach's commission this week.

Read more: https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/07/08/arkansas-alone-has-supplied-voter-data-to-trump-what-data-mark-martins-own-illustrates