Perhaps the most important thing that Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has accomplished in his tenure is to push back against the very commission on which he sits: the president’s voter fraud commission.

Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity — which met for the first time this week — had requested states hand over “publicly available voter roll data for Maine,” according to a statement from Dunlap’s office.

In a letter to Dunlap, Commission Vice President and Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach noted that “any documents that are submitted to the full Commission will also be made available to the public.”

Among information requested included dates of birth, political party, partial Social Security number and voter history — information protected by state law as confidential.

“Maine citizens can be confident that our office will not release any data that is protected under Maine law, to the commission or any other requesting entity,” said Dunlap.

We would be more confident, however, if the commission itself was dismantled.

The election is over. Trump won the vote that counts — the electoral college. He ought to have been content with that.

But even before his inauguration, Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for widespread voter fraud.

More recently, he has questioned the motives behind states like Maine that refuse to comply with commission requests.

Kobach, meanwhile, told NBC News this week that “we will probably never know” whether Clinton actually did win the popular vote by 2.9 million ballots.

Such statements and unfounded accusations fly in the face of the facts as reported by election officials.

According to a Voice of America report, Dunlap earlier this month “dismissed Trump’s claim that millions of voters illegally cast ballots,” telling CNN, “We just don’t see that.”

VOA did report that “Dunlap said he hopes the panel can tackle voting issues including ballot access and hacking.”

Unfortunately, the commission this week appeared content to leave any investigations of Russian hacking of the 2016 election to the Senate.

Meanwhile, Dunlap on Thursday sounded optimistic that the commission could, at least, work for voters’ interests: “Our clear goal should be to increase voter confidence in our democratic system of citizen self-governance. This discussion should include not only the benefits of added security in election law and technology, but we should also maintain a weather eye on laws and processes that might pose barriers to citizens trying to exercise their lawful right to vote.”

It’s an optimism we do not share. And while we applaud Dunlap’s move to ensure Mainer’s privacy and to conform with state statute, we can’t help but wish for Dunlap to disavow the commission itself.