Social security numbers and driver's license numbers will not be included in the dump, according to John Conklin, spokesman for the New York State Board of Elections. But voters' names, ages, addresses, political parties, voting histories and various other details will still be in there.
Here's a sample layout of the files New York will be handing over. (Click on the link here ...and down load a PDF of the 6 page information 0on each voter that will be sent)
In short: As of this afternoon, personal details about you and your political views along with those of nearly 13 million other New York voters will be sitting on a computer in the White House, waiting to be tapped into at the U.S. government's discretion.
"It is public information," Board of Elections spokesman Conklin explained in an email Wednesday, "and the Commission made the specific attestation required under NY Election Law that the information would be used for an elections purpose. We had no lawful reason to deny it under NY Election Law and NY FOIL statute."
That may help explain the unusually heavy penalty imposed on Rosa Maria Ortega, 37, a permanent resident and a mother of four who lives outside Dallas. On Thursday, a Fort Worth
judge sentenced her to eight years in prison and almost certainly deportation later after she voted illegally in elections in 2012 and 2014.
The sentence for Ms. Ortega, who was brought to this country by her mother as an infant, shows how serious Texas is about keeping its elections secure, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said in a statement. Her lawyer called it an egregious overreaction, made to score political points, against someone who wrongly believed she was eligible to vote.
Here is the miscreant and spawn: