One Thing: Inside Trump’s Fight for Your Voter Data

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Trump administration’s effort to build a national citizen database is running into roadblocks in court and alarming some election officials on both sides of the aisle. But what is this data for? And how could it be used? We hear from one election official about why he’s pushing back, and look at how election integrity concerns are playing out in other parts of the country. For more: Trump is trying to build a massive voter database. Election officials are afraid of what he’ll do with it --- Guests: David Yates, Jefferson County (KY) Clerk & Tierney Sneed, CNN Reporter Host: David Rind Producer: Paola Ortiz Showrunner: Felicia Patinkin Photo: Carlos Osorio/Reuters/File Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to One Thing. I'm David Rind. And from mail-in ballots to your personal data, President Donald Trump wants to have a heavy hand in elections, but will states or the law let him?
0:11.4	This is a place where constitutionally there's not much he can do unilaterally, but he sure is trying.
0:17.7	Stick around.
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0:30.2	If only they could make parallel parking simpler.
0:33.4	To the right bit, mate.
0:34.6	Yeah, back.
0:35.6	Back a bit more.
0:37.1	Bit more. Oh, no, back a bit. A bit more, bit more.
0:37.7	Oh, no, too far.
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0:50.8	Why did you feel compelled to intervene in this way? David, I think part of it is a little bit of fear.
1:00.4	This is David Yates. He's the county clerk of Jefferson County, Kentucky. He was appointed to the
1:05.8	role last fall after the previous clerk died. Part of David's job as clerk is handling records related to elections.
1:12.8	Last month, in response to a lawsuit from the Trump administration's Justice Department,
1:17.2	seeking to collect voter data, he moved to try to prevent that from happening.
1:21.6	We're going to be talking about this in depth and just a bit, but a quick backstory.
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