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By Barbara Hoberock, Oklahoma Voice
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OKLAHOMA CITY – It wasn’t clear Friday if the state’s Attorney General’s Office planned to fight the release of protected voter data sought by the Trump administration.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement that Oklahoma will fully cooperate with “any lawful requests related to the investigation of voter fraud.” 

His office would not say Friday if Drummond believed the federal government could lawfully obtain voters’ social security and driver’s license data. 

His comments came hours after the Department of Justice sued Oklahoma State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax, demanding that he provide them voters’ full name, date of birth, address, complete driver’s license numbers and last four digits of their Social Security numbers.

State law prohibits the release of some of the data sought by the Trump administration, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers.

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