President Trump expected to launch commission on 'election integrity'
Source: ABC News
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the American election system, multiple senior administration officials tell ABC News.
The officials say Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will be announced as Chair and Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity in a press release today. It's not clear whether the White House will allow coverage of the order signing.
The commission, which will include Republicans and Democrats, will be tasked with studying "vulnerabilities" in U.S. voting systems and potential effects on "improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting," according to one official with knowledge of the announcement.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, Trump claimed widespread voter fraud explained why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged with nearly 3 million more popular votes. To date, neither Trump nor his team has provided evidence to substantiate the claims, but they have promised an investigation.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-expected-launch-commission-election-integrity/story
I'll sleep soundly tonight.
samnsara
(17,570 posts)..hes looking for vulnerabilities to share with the Russians.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)turned up ANY new information for investigative journalists and analysts to leap on?
What a fool. Rump clearly has worked himself into believing he is a victim of election fraud, which he can use to change the dialogue.
Another Rump-set fire for horrified GOP leaders to get control of and put out before it has a chance to burn them bad.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He has no idea what that word means. Too bad daughter/wife Ivanka can not explain it to him, she has difficulty understanding words too.
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)The officials say Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will be announced as Chair and Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity in a press release today.
The same Kris Kobach who helped to rig the last elections w/Cross Check?
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Starting in 2013 just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOPcontrolled states.
The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,
The GOPs Stealth War on Voters, 8/24/2016.
Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922
Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824
Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393
On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump. The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including Caging, purging, blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to provisional ballots that will never be counted.
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/
Vinca
(50,170 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)must be included.
Botany
(70,291 posts)n/t
milestogo
(16,829 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)gfwzig
(133 posts)Ligyron
(7,592 posts)and welcome to DU!
True Dough
(17,096 posts)involving the word integrity.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)How can the republicans support this destructive Assult on our Nation?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Time is better spent fighting back.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)Switch to Independent or Democratic Party to make the difference.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Call, text, write letters, postcards, use RESISTBOT, protest, demonstrate.. do anything....
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)at a country club in Victor, NY against Chris Collins, a self-righteous little shit if ever there was one.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)Exciting... it's easy when you have a purpose. I'm in Ohio... doing more ground work stuff.
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)Kobach is another really evil man.
lark
(23,003 posts)Yes, put in big vote suppressers so they can tell everyone everything's just fine, except we need to not let women and brown people vote. This fig leaf is totally transparent and if he thinks this will alleviate our concerns, it just shows how supremely stupid and arrogant he truly is.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Ligyron
(7,592 posts)I'm not sure that's such a bad idea. That way, when a voter presents it there's no way they can be denied the right to vote or be shunted into a "provisional" ballot that ends up in the trash.
That and eliminate machines, install hand counted paper ballots and we might just start winning elections.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)Birth certificates are notably lacking for many older African-Americans especially if they were born in the segregated South, and Latino Americans and people who were generally too poor to have been born in a good hospital or kept their documents carefully in a stable house while growing up.
It's deliberately to stop minorities from voting.
I know a few too many people who are eligible voters but due to clerical errors or inaccurate record keeping in poorer neighborhoods they had difficulty getting voter IDs upon moving to some red states even though they had a drivers license from elsewhere.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)What would be the alternative? We have to get these people ID's somehow.This should be a birth right.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)also have appropriated funding and staff to help people get IDs including costs of correcting clerical errors like miss-spelled names in time for the next election.
That won't happen because these laws are written by conservative policy groups like ALEC who have famously admitted they don't want people to vote. Daring us to do something about it. They spew complete lies about voter fraud to make reasonable people believe ids would be a reasonable request when it's actually a major hardship for millions of Americans.
The simple fact that Latinos were in line to vote in Florida caused Republican politicians to claim illegal immigrants were voting.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)In that case, the courts would be our only hope, I guess
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Every team they enact voter ID in a state it has been shown to disproportionally affect minorities, young voters and women. This is their plan for winning in '18 and '20.
reflection
(6,286 posts)foxes are expected to launch commissions on henhouse integrity.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Javaman
(62,442 posts)>wipes tear from eye< bhahahahahaha!!!!
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)I thought this was from the Onion!
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)for 'we're gonna rig every voting machine in our favor.'
JudyM
(29,122 posts)Hoping that the participating Dems will actually be privy to its scope.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)"Trump" and "integrity" should not appear on the same page.
Kablooie
(18,572 posts)They have been trying to rig elections for years.
Now they control the whole government and they will revise the election laws so that they will remain in power foerever.
They are seriously working to destroy our democracy.and take over government.
JudyM
(29,122 posts)absolutely must strengthen our defensive plays.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They'll finish the damn transition next year.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)2016 was also the first presidential election since the Supreme Court stripped voters of the 1965 Voting Rights Act's protections, and many voters in critical swing states reported long lines and intimidation at polling sites, as Common Dreams reported at the time.
The Associated Press spoke to multiple Wisconsinites who discovered to their dismay that they would not be able to vote in the November election. In one poignant story, an elderly couple found themselves turned away by poll workers who knew them personally:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/09/wisconsin-id-law-kept-200000-voters-polls-and-trump-won-just-22748-votes
We need to Burn The Swamp and fill it with Clean Dirt better than dirty politicians that hate voters, Beg people to vote to bring in Truck loads of Democrats!