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Trump Targets State Holdouts During Election Integrity Commission's 1st Public Meeting

Route Fifty: WASHINGTON — President Trump opened the first livestreamed meeting of his controversial Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on Wednesday by questioning the refusal by some state officials to comply with its request for sensitive voter file data.

The commission hasn’t yet allowed in-person attendance of its meetings or made all of its records available to the public, as required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act. A federal judge on Tuesday declined to immediately compel such actions.

During the livestream, both Trump and Vice President Pence asserted that more than 30 states already agreed to release their publicly available information, though the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law puts that number at 17 with eight others imposing restrictions, two reviewing the request and two others never receiving one.

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