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Election Chief Reaffirms Giving Out Only Public Voting Data

PAUL GARBER/WFDD

North Carolina's elections agency has followed through on previous plans to provide public voting data to the Trump administration. The information was requested by a federal commission investigating voter fraud.

The state's chief elections regulator wrote a letter to a top leader of the Trump advisory panel Wednesday.

It included a link to election data already accessible to the public. The information leaves out voters' birth dates and Social Security and driver's license numbers, which are confidential. The public information does include voters' names, addresses, political affiliations, demographic data and participation in past elections.

State Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Strach's letter also provided the commission with the board's audit of last fall's election and observations about efforts to ensure only lawful voters cast ballots.

Some voters had pressured the state elections agency to withhold the information, insisting that President Trump's claims of massive voter fraud have been debunked.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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