Federally centralized database of voters

Today on the news:

"A commission created by President Donald Trump to enhance confidence in America’s elections has asked all 50 states for copies of their voter records which often include names, addresses and ages. The commission has said it intends to make the information widely available."

https://www.propublica.org/article/presidential-commission-demands-massive-amounts-of-state-voter-data

"The commission also asked for information beyond what is typically contained in voter registration records, including Social Security numbers and military status, if the state election databases contain it."




I personally find this alarming. 

And, as I "tweeted" yesterday on my twitter account; if my information is mishandled (which, knowing the Trump administration, is not that far-fetched) I will need compensation. Right away I was accused by a twitter troll of wanting "welfare": this is the state of political discourse nowadays. 

The reason I said I will need compensation is because I know first-hand the financial toll that having one's identity stolen takes on your family. My baby-boomer-aged parents's identity was stolen  and I had to work fast to stop the damage: from making endless copies and contacting credit bureaus, to going to the local police department and calling the police departments in the cities where my parents's information was misused.

It was a nightmare, not to mention all the anger and frustration. 

Regardless, the comments from the story below also caught my attention:

“I have every reason to think that given the shoddy work that Mr. Kobach has done in this area in the past that this is going to be yet another boondoggle and a propaganda tool that tries to inflate the problem of double registration beyond what it actually is,” 

“As we know with Kobach, he’s obsessed with trying to identify voter fraud and finds it in a lot of places where it doesn’t exist,”


On top of the comments above, why would the Trump commission (headed by Mr. "shoddy work" Kobach) need social security numbers?  In addition; why create a national database that could become a "propaganda tool" used against U.S. citizens?

There has to be another way to "enhance confidence in America's elections" that doesn't include having all our information in a federal database controlled by a partisan like Kobach.