This article conveniently ignores the OTHER information requested by the commission: people's voting history.  That information, and the fact that they thought this was ok to request, is absolutely alarming.  45 states refusing hardly makes refusal a partisan conspiracy.  Given that states run their own elections, I think there is legitimate cause for concern about federal data mining.  It's also ridiculous that this info is for sale. I'm much more comfortable giving this to the feds than to the highest bidder and as you can tell, I'm really not that comfortable giving it to the feds.