Privacy Group Challenge to Voter Panel Data Collection Fails
- Appeals court rules privacy rights group lacks standing
- Trump launched panel after making claims of voter fraud
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A U.S. privacy group doesn’t have the legal right to seek a court order to block President Donald Trump’s election-integrity commission from collecting voter data because it doesn’t meet the necessary requirements, an appeals court ruled.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center “is not a voter," the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said Tuesday. "As far as the record shows, it has no traditional membership, let alone members who are voters. Unsurprisingly, then, it does not claim standing on behalf of any voter whose data is likely to be collected."