Florida officials are still trying to decide whether to send the state's voter information to a White House commission on voter fraud.

  • Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity wants voter data from all 50 states
  • Includes names, party affiliation, voter history, last four digits of SSNs, military status
  • Florida has yet to decide if it will turn the data over

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is asking all 50 states to supply voter information, including names, political party affiliation and voter history. The request also asked for the last four digits of the voters' Social Security numbers and military status.

Gov. Scott said Friday that he had not seen the letter sent to Florida's secretary of state, Ken Detzner. A spokesperson for Detzner said his office was still reviewing the request.

The commission is investigating the president's claim that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally last year.

Multiple studies show no evidence of widespread voter fraud, although it is not uncommon to find discrepancies in the voting rolls, including deceased voters and voters registered in multiple states. 

The information was requested by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice-chair of the commission. Kobach has has been embroiled in voter disenfranchisement lawsuits in Kansas. He also runs a program called Crosscheck which is supposed to help states to better maintain voter rolls. However, a Stanford study found the program to be ineffective.

Voting experts believe the real plan is to create a national voting list using the data.

A bipartisan group of election officials in almost 20 states are critical of the data request. Some are only willing to turn over voter data that is already public, questioning why the commission needs any of the non-public data. Some are refusing to turn any data over to the commission. 

One state -- Wisconsin -- told the commission that it will turn over the public data -- if the commission pays the standard $12,500 voting fee.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.