The White House will destroy all voter data that its now-defunct election fraud commission had collected over the past year, according to a Justice Department filing released late Tuesday.
White House Director of Information Technology Charles Herndon denied White House press secretary Sarah Sanders’ statement last week that the information would be archived through the Department of Homeland Security.
Instead, the information the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity had collected will be completely erased, the declaration stated, according to Politico.
Herndon also said Sanders’ comment about the commission having come to “preliminary findings” was untrue.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who served as vice chairman of the commission, had requested voter rolls from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The request was met with lawsuits from uncooperative states who said the move was an executive overreach.
Trump announced last week the conclusion of the commission and said it was meant to save taxpayer money from having to defend the operation from the eight lawsuits that had been filed against it.
