meetings and requests for compliance with public records laws. Transfer to Department of Homeland Security After Trump shut down the Commission, Kobach pointed out in an interview that "DHS knows the identity of everyone who has green cards" and temporary visas, and that to compare those names to state voter rolls would be "immensely valuable." He stated, "This is a tactical shift by the president who remains very committed to finding the scope of voter fraud." He told several interviewers that he would "be working closely with the White House and DHS to ensure the investigations continue," but the acting DHS press secretary said that Kobach would not be advising or working with the Department. On January 9, the director of White House information technology stated, in a declaration appended to a motion in Commissioner Dunlap's suit against the Commission, that the state voter data the Commission had collected would not be sent to DHS or any other agency except the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), pursuant to federal law and pending the outcome of lawsuits, and that pursuant to federal law and upon consultation with NARA the White House intended to destroy all the state voter data held by the dissolved Commission. The DHS already has access to the state voter data the commission requested from the states. Voting rights and civil rights advocates were alarmed at moves by the Trump administration to task the DHS with fighting "voter fraud" despite multiple studies showing that voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the U.S., fearing that Trump's directive would give impetus to purges of eligible voters from the voter rolls. See also Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election Voter registration in the United States Voting rights in the United States Voter suppression in the United States Notes References External links E.O. 13799 (Wikisource) United States national commissions United States Presidential Commissions Mike Pence Electoral fraud Organizations associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Government agencies established in 2017 Government agencies disestablished in 2018 Executive orders of Donald Trump Voter suppression Election commissions in the United States Trump administration controversies 2017 establishments in the United States 2018 disestablishments in the United States United States election controversies