Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg labrare for exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Law host Jun Grosso and Greg Sture discussed President Trump's Election Integrity Commission, which is being led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobac and is attempting to stop a voter fraud in America. They speak with Josh Douglas, a professor at University of Kentucky School of Law, and each personally your professor at Stanford University
Law School. Is there any problem with the goal of trying to gather information from the states about their databases. Well, for the most part, we have a very decentralized electoral system in the US. We not only decentralized down to the state level, but we decentralized further down to the local level, and so a national database of voters does not exist. So what the Kobac Pence Commission is trying
to do is unprecedented. Um the secretaries of State have indicated to Kobac that he the the kind of information that he is asking for from the states. Uh if they were to provide it would often violate state law because he's asked for our real wealth of information from about the individual voters. I don't think there is a problem legally with assembling a national database of eligible voters per se. But the way he's gone about it is contradictor to some of the state laws. Josh, what is
he looking for? Really? Is there another way to do what he says he wants to do without getting all this information? Well, it's not clear what he really wants to do. Um. And that's the problem. And I say it's not clear because although he claims should be seeking evidence of duplicate registrations or or people voting illegally, um, what he's asking for is not the way to do
that um. And so I think, well, a lot of people are concerned about is that he's gonna if you were to obtain this information, she would to learn what we already know, which is that the voter registration roles can be bloated for for normal reasons like people die, people move, um. And that's not evidence of voter fraud.
I think the concerns that he's gonna say, well, look we have these bloated registration roles, there's voter fraud here and that's going to support ever more restrictive voter voting laws. And and that's what I think one of the big problems is. That's Josh Douglas, a professor at University of Kentucky School of Law, and Nate were Silly, your professor at Stanford University Law School, speaking at the Bloomberg Law
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