Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg labrare for
Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Law
Speaker 1: host Jun Grosso and Greg Sture discussed President Trump's Election
Speaker 1: Integrity Commission, which is being led by Vice President Mike
Speaker 1: Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobac and is
Speaker 1: attempting to stop a voter fraud in America. They speak
Speaker 1: with Josh Douglas, a professor at University of Kentucky School
Speaker 1: of Law, and each personally your professor at Stanford University
Speaker 1: Law School. Is there any problem with the goal of
Speaker 1: trying to gather information from the states about their databases. Well,
Speaker 1: for the most part, we have a very decentralized electoral
Speaker 1: system in the US. We not only decentralized down to
Speaker 1: the state level, but we decentralized further down to the
Speaker 1: local level, and so a national database of voters does
Speaker 1: not exist. So what the Kobac Pence Commission is trying
Speaker 1: to do is unprecedented. Um the secretaries of State have
Speaker 1: indicated to Kobac that he the the kind of information
Speaker 1: that he is asking for from the states. Uh if
Speaker 1: they were to provide it would often violate state law
Speaker 1: because he's asked for our real wealth of information from
Speaker 1: about the individual voters. I don't think there is a
Speaker 1: problem legally with assembling a national database of eligible voters
Speaker 1: per se. But the way he's gone about it is
Speaker 1: contradictor to some of the state laws. Josh, what is
Speaker 1: he looking for? Really? Is there another way to do
Speaker 1: what he says he wants to do without getting all
Speaker 1: this information? Well, it's not clear what he really wants
Speaker 1: to do. Um. And that's the problem. And I say
Speaker 1: it's not clear because although he claims should be seeking
Speaker 1: evidence of duplicate registrations or or people voting illegally, um,
Speaker 1: what he's asking for is not the way to do
Speaker 1: that um. And so I think, well, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are concerned about is that he's gonna if you
Speaker 1: were to obtain this information, she would to learn what
Speaker 1: we already know, which is that the voter registration roles
Speaker 1: can be bloated for for normal reasons like people die,
Speaker 1: people move, um. And that's not evidence of voter fraud.
Speaker 1: I think the concerns that he's gonna say, well, look
Speaker 1: we have these bloated registration roles, there's voter fraud here
Speaker 1: and that's going to support ever more restrictive voter voting laws.
Speaker 1: And and that's what I think one of the big
Speaker 1: problems is. That's Josh Douglas, a professor at University of
Speaker 1: Kentucky School of Law, and Nate were Silly, your professor
Speaker 1: at Stanford University Law School, speaking at the Bloomberg Law
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