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Louisiana was among more than 40 states last summer that refused to submit detailed voter information requested by President Donald Trump's administration, which sought to investigate "voter fraud" through the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. On Jan. 3, Trump announced that he's dissolved the commission.

In a White House statement, Trump says rather than "engage in endless legal battles" over states' objections, he's handing the efforts over to the Department of Homeland Security.

Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler told Gambit in July that*the commission "has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release."

?My response to the Commission is, you're not going to play politics with Louisiana?s voter data, and if you are, then you can purchase the limited public information available by law, to any candidate running for office," he said.?