U.S.

Department of Justice
Office of Information Policy
Suite 11050
1425 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Telephone: (202) 514-3642

March 30, 2018

Re: DOJ-2017-004083 (OLP)

DOJ-2017-004291 (AG)
DOJ-2017-004292 (DAG)
DOJ-2017-004293 (ASG)
DOJ-2017-005582 (AG)
DOJ-2017-005734 (DAG)
Ms. Wendy Weiser DOJ-2017-005735 (ASG)
Brennan Center for Justice DOJ-2017-005736 (OLP)
120 Broadway, Suite 1750 DOJ-2017-005737 (OIP)
New York, NY 10271 17-cv-06335 (S.D.N.Y.)
weiserw@brennan.law.edu VRB:CJOK:BPF

Dear Ms. Weiser:

This is an interim response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests dated
and received in this Office on May 15, 2017 and July 25, 2017, in which you requested records
pertaining to (1) the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (the
Commission), and (2) communications and documents involving the use of specific databases
and activities of the Commission. This response is made on behalf of the Offices of the
Attorney General (OAG), Deputy Attorney General (ODAG), Associate Attorney General
(OASG), Legal Policy (OLP), and Information Policy (OIP).

On January 31, 2018, we provided you with an interim response to your requests. At
this time, I have determined that an additional sixty-four pages containing records responsive
to your requests are appropriate for release, and copies are enclosed. The enclosed records
consist of Departmental correspondence with Congress, including attachments thereto. Please
note that the attachments contain FOIA redactions that were present on the records as located
by this Office, and were not made as part of our FOIA review for this response. These
redactions were originally made pursuant to FOIA Exemption 6, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), which
pertains to information the release of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
the personal privacy of third parties. Additionally, please note that the blank boxes (with no
FOIA exemption indicated) that appear in attachments consisting of emails from outside
organizations are artifacts of their original emails and, again, were not made as part of our
FOIA review. Finally, correspondence in this production makes reference to an attached
amicus brief filed by the Department in Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute v. Husted. This brief
is already publicly available on the Department’s website at:
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https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/briefs/2017/08/07/16-
980_husted_v_randolph_institute_ac_merits.pdf.

. We are continuing to process remaining records that are potentially responsive to

your requests, and pursuant to our agreement, we will respond to you again by April 27, 2018.

For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement
and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. § 552(c) (2015)
(amended 2016). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements
of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be
taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist.

If you have any questions regarding this response, please contact Casey Kyung-Se Lee,
Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York at 212-637-2714.

Sincerely,

Vanessa R. Brinkmann
Senior Counsel

Enclosures