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DONALD TRUMP MAY RESTRICT VOTING RIGHTS AHEAD OF 2020
. . . The facts and figures presented at Tuesday’s meeting by Kobach, Block and others were rejected by viewers like Wendy Weiser, director of the voting rights research group Brennan Center, who tweeted Tuesday, “Most of the fraud commission’s evidence of fraud seems to come from the commissioners themselves. Hmm.”
Rebuttals also came from within the commission itself, as a number of Democrats suggested the most important issue affecting elections nationwide involved voter suppression, not voter fraud.
The Election Integrity Commission “should be expanding the rights of our citizens to vote, instead of arguably looking for ways to keep people from voting,” Alan L. King, an Alabama probate judge, wrote in a scathing open letter. “Some parts of our electorate wish to beat their chests on so-called ‘voter fraud,’ and there may be some isolated instances of irregularities, but, I would venture to say, thousands upon thousands more people are stricken from voter rolls without justifiable cause or have their vote suppressed.”
The commission could be laying the groundwork for new restrictions on voters ahead of the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections, as it focuses on voting logistics in states like New Hampshire, where Trump was defeated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The state legally allows registered voters to cast ballots after identifying themselves with out-of-state licenses—“proof,” Kobach says, that the election results were skewed by illegal votes against Trump.
Rebuttals also came from within the commission itself, as a number of Democrats suggested the most important issue affecting elections nationwide involved voter suppression, not voter fraud.
The Election Integrity Commission “should be expanding the rights of our citizens to vote, instead of arguably looking for ways to keep people from voting,” Alan L. King, an Alabama probate judge, wrote in a scathing open letter. “Some parts of our electorate wish to beat their chests on so-called ‘voter fraud,’ and there may be some isolated instances of irregularities, but, I would venture to say, thousands upon thousands more people are stricken from voter rolls without justifiable cause or have their vote suppressed.”
The commission could be laying the groundwork for new restrictions on voters ahead of the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections, as it focuses on voting logistics in states like New Hampshire, where Trump was defeated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The state legally allows registered voters to cast ballots after identifying themselves with out-of-state licenses—“proof,” Kobach says, that the election results were skewed by illegal votes against Trump.
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-2020-vote-fraud-election-fake-news-664474
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