Trump’s Voter Fraud Investigation Is A Mess, But It’s Still Frightening
POLITICS 07/08/2017 10:27 pm ET
Trump’s Voter Fraud Investigation Is A Mess, But It’s Still Frightening
States are rebelling, a commissioner resigned and the panel is facing legal scrutiny.
By Sam Levine - Huffpost
Commission On Election Integrity met each other for the first time during a June 28 conference call, Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the panel’s leaders, made it clear they wanted the committee’s work to be unbiased.
Trump’s Voter Fraud Probe Is Just Beginning, And It May Already Be Breaking The Law.
The commission says legal review requirements don’t apply to it.
That same day, Kobach sent a letter to all 50 states, requesting any “publicly available” information on voters, including highly sensitive information such as their voting history, information regarding felony convictions and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. The letter immediately prompted a bipartisan backlash as Democratic and Republican election officials declined to provide sensitive voter information. The White House has tried to downplay resistance to the probe, releasing a statement saying reports that nearly every state was resisting the probe were “fake news.”
Now, after less than two weeks of activity, the commission, convened after Trump’s unsubstantiated claim millions voted illegally last year, is under fire before it has even looked at a single voter file. The backlash has undermined the work of commissioners, as election officials have openly questioned why the commission needs highly sensitive personal information. Trump himself has also undermined the suggestion the probe was convened to look broadly at confidence in elections, calling it a “voter fraud panel” in a tweet.
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Investigation Is A Mess, But It’s Still Frightening
States are rebelling, a commissioner resigned and the panel is facing legal scrutiny.
By Sam Levine - Huffpost
Commission On Election Integrity met each other for the first time during a June 28 conference call, Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the panel’s leaders, made it clear they wanted the committee’s work to be unbiased.
Trump’s Voter Fraud Probe Is Just Beginning, And It May Already Be Breaking The Law.
The commission says legal review requirements don’t apply to it.
That same day, Kobach sent a letter to all 50 states, requesting any “publicly available” information on voters, including highly sensitive information such as their voting history, information regarding felony convictions and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. The letter immediately prompted a bipartisan backlash as Democratic and Republican election officials declined to provide sensitive voter information. The White House has tried to downplay resistance to the probe, releasing a statement saying reports that nearly every state was resisting the probe were “fake news.”
Now, after less than two weeks of activity, the commission, convened after Trump’s unsubstantiated claim millions voted illegally last year, is under fire before it has even looked at a single voter file. The backlash has undermined the work of commissioners, as election officials have openly questioned why the commission needs highly sensitive personal information. Trump himself has also undermined the suggestion the probe was convened to look broadly at confidence in elections, calling it a “voter fraud panel” in a tweet.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kris-k...
A Yale-trained lawyer, Kobach has served as counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) since 2004. IRLI is the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group whose leaders have historical ties to white supremacists and eugenicists and who have made numerous racist statements.[1] He joined IRLI after a two-year stint as a White House fellow working in the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft during the Bush administration.
A group whose leaders have historical ties to white supremacists and eugenicists and who have made numerous racist statements.
The Russian's, we need to keep ur eye on but here at home, take a look at what the republican's are doing to undermined our Free Election process under this FAKE NEWS STORY OF VOTER FRAUD, which the president of The United States is sponsoring by letting this man Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), in control program.