Asked for comment about the recent turmoil involving the commission, a White House spokesperson responded late Monday night: “President Trump has charged this commission with producing a set of recommendations to increase the American people’s confidence in our election system.”
The spokesperson continued, “The Commission has asked for voter rolls from publicly available data from all fifty states and the District of Columbia which can be submitted to federally secure systems. This is the beginning of a fact finding process that will help ensure the purity and transparency of our electoral process.”
Failure to comply with the request, the spokesperson said, “at a minimum diminishes the process that will secure the sanctity of the individual vote and our democracy.”