Tag: Trump Voter Suppression Panel

President Trump’s claim that ‘mostly Democrat States’ refused to provide voter data

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website January 5, 2018:

President Trump announced on Jan. 3 that he is disbanding a controversial panel studying alleged voter fraud. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

“Many mostly Democrat States refused to hand over data from the 2016 Election to the Commission On Voter Fraud. They fought hard that the Commission not see their records or methods because they know that many people are voting illegally.”
— President Trump, in a tweet, Jan. 4, 2018

Regular readers know that President Trump has often earned Pinocchios for his unproven claims about rampant voter fraud. In disbanding his controversial panel studying alleged voter fraud, the president once again asserted “many people are voting illegally” even though there is no evidence of that.

Rather than rehash that bogus claim — readers can find our previous fact checks here, here, here, here, here, here and here — we decided to examine the first part of Trump’s tweet. He claimed that “many mostly Democrat States refused to hand over data” requested from the voting commission. Continue reading “President Trump’s claim that ‘mostly Democrat States’ refused to provide voter data”

Trump Closes Voter Fraud Panel That Bickered More Than It Revealed

The following article by Michael Wines and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website January 4, 2018:

Voters in the 2016 presidential election in the Bronx, New York. A voter fraud commission, formed shortly after the president’s inauguration, was disbanded on Wednesday. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which was disbanded this week by the White House, grew out of a presidential tweet.

“I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD,” President Trump wrote on Jan. 25, just days after his inauguration, repeating a claim he had made that millions of illegal immigrants had voted improperly in the last presidential election and swung the popular vote in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

On Wednesday the president closed the inquiry, which after eight months of efforts had found no evidence of electoral fraud and had been widely discredited and enmeshed in controversy after controversy. Its epitaph too was marked by a follow-up missive typed out on Thursday morning by @realDonaldTrump. Continue reading “Trump Closes Voter Fraud Panel That Bickered More Than It Revealed”