The following article by Kurtis Lee was posted on the Los Angeles Times website October 25, 2017:
President Trump’s voter fraud commission, launched by executive order in May with the stated goal of restoring confidence and integrity in the electoral process, is now confronted with pushback from an unlikely group: its own members.
Two Democrats on the bipartisan commission sent letters to leaders of the panel last week condemning a lack of transparency.
The following article by Jonathan Miller was posted on the Roll Call website September 11, 2017:
Some see commission as Washington’s most dangerous advisory board
President Donald Trump, flanked by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington in July. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images File Photo)
If anyone in Washington was wondering just how seriously Democrats were taking a presidential advisory commission tasked with finding voter fraud, the answer came in late August, when Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer compared the commission with the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier in the month.
“If the president wants to truly show that he rejects the discrimination agenda of the white supremacist movement, he will rescind the Executive Order that created this commission,” the New York Democrat wrote in a post on Medium.com. He added that the commission was “a ruse,” whose “only intention is to disenfranchise voters.”
But that was not all. Schumer drew a line in the sand by warning that he would seek to attach riders to important bills coming up in Congress this month to block the commission: “If the president does not act, the Congress should prohibit its operation through one of the must-pass legislative vehicles in September,” he wrote. That could include a host of measures, such as a children’s health care program, a flood insurance reauthorization program and a bill for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The following article by Kira Lerner was posted on the Think Progress website September 6, 2017:
Where have we heard this before?
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, LEFT, ACCOMPANIED BY VICE-CHAIR KANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE KRIS KOBACH, RIGHT, SPEAKS DURING THE FIRST MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON ELECTION INTEGRITY AT THE EISENHOWER EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING ON THE WHITE HOUSE COMPLEX IN WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against President Trump’s voting commission are alleging that co-chair Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) and other commissioners are committing the same offense that haunted Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency: using private email for government business.
In a court filing Tuesday, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law claims that members of the commission “have been using personal email accounts rather than federal government systems to conduct Commission work.” The complaint alleges that use of non-government email would violate the Presidential Records Act.
“Defendants’ counsel further stated they did not yet have any settled plan for how they would collect emails from these personal, non-federal government systems, or even who would conduct the searches,” the filing notes, adding that it’s “critically important” that the emails from personal accounts are logged in the same way as government emails. Continue reading “Trump voting commission allegedly uses personal email for government business”
It should come as no surprise that Trump chose Kobach to be the vice chairman of Vice President Mike Pence’s new Commission on Election Integrity. This appointment gives Kobach a national platform by which to pursue his agenda.
The following article by Jessica Huseman was posted on the ProPublica website July 6, 2017:
The commission told ProPublica that states’ voter rolls will be run against federal databases to find potential fraudulent registrations — a move experts say will result in thousands of errors and could distort fraud.
Credit: Dave Kaup, Reuters
Vice President Mike Pence’s office has confirmed the White House commission on voter fraud intends to run the state voter rolls it has requested against federal databases to check for potential fraudulent registration. Experts say the plan is certain to produce thousands of false positives that could distort the understanding of the potential for fraud, especially given the limited data states have agreed to turn over.
“This just demonstrates remarkable naivety on how this voter data can be used,” said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “There’s absolutely no way that incomplete data from some states — mainly consisting of names and addresses — can be used to determine anything.” Continue reading “Election Experts See Flaws in Trump Voter Commission’s Plan to Smoke Out Fraud T”
President Trump’s voter fraud commission, launched by executive order in May with the stated goal of restoring confidence and integrity in the electoral process, is now confronted with pushback from an unlikely group: its own members.
