Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that his office is suing Senate Republicans in order to stop them from subpoenaing the personal information of voters, reported Jurist. The lawsuit alleges that their efforts to subpoena the personal information of nine million Pennsylvanians invades Pennsylvanians’ right to informational privacy under the Pennsylvania Constitution.
As part of a “forensic investigation” of the 2020
election, Senators Chris Dush, Jake Corman, and the Senate Intergovernmental
Operations Committee requested the name, date of birth, partial Social
Security number, and driver’s license number for every Pennsylvanian who voted
in the 2020 presidential election. They also wanted to know the method of
voting and when each registered voter cast a ballot. As a reason for that
request, they cited concerns about the integrity of the election.
In response, the Office of the Attorney General filed
a lawsuit Thursday in the Commonwealth Court of
Pennsylvania on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of
State, and Acting Secretary Veronica Degraffenreid.
The lawsuit argues that the committee’s concerns about
alleged integrity issues during the election are based on false, partisan
narratives. Additionally, the lawsuit argues that providing the personal
information of so many voters is a great risk, especially because the committee
did not implement needed security protocols to protect the information from
third-party companies.
Shapiro stated: “Giving this data away would compromise the
privacy of every Pennsylvania voter—that violates Pennsylvanians’ constitutional
rights. By trying to pry into everyone’s drivers license numbers and social
security numbers they have gone too far.”
In Pennsylvania, there have been challenges to the 2020
presidential election and to the state’s voting rules and requirements. The US
Supreme Court dismissed the
final challenge to the 2020 presidential election from Pennsylvania in
April. In early September, 14 Republican lawmakers filed
a complaint challenging Act 77, which established universal mail-in voting in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in October 2019, as unconstitutional.
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