slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

1/3/18 JILL COLVIN, Associated Press 56 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order disbanding his controversial v***r f***d commission amid infighting, legal threats and information denials.

The White House blamed the decision, announced Wednesday evening, on a refusal by more than a dozen states to comply with the commission request for reams of personal v**er data, including v**ers' names, v****g histories and party affiliations.

"Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to review its initial findings and determine next courses of action," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Critics saw the commission as part of a conservative campaign to make it harder for poor people and minority v**ers to access the b****t box, and to justify unfounded claims made by Trump that v***r f***d cost him the popular v**e in 2016.

Trump has repeatedly alleged, without evidence, that 3 million to 5 million people v**ed illegally in the 2016 e******n, delivering the popular v**e to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Past studies have found v***r f***d to be exceptionally rare.

Critics also viewed the commission as an attempt to distract from the ongoing investigations into Russian e******n meddling and potential collusion between Moscow and Trump campaign aides. The intelligence community concluded that the Russian government mounted a campaign to help Trump win.

At least a dozen states, plus Washington, D.C., had rebuffed the commission's request for v**er data, citing privacy concerns and a fear that complying would legitimize the idea that v***r f***d is widespread.

While there have been isolated cases of people v****g illegally, and many v**er rolls often contain outdated data, there is no evidence v***r f***d is a widespread problem in the United States or has impacted e******n results.

A study by a Loyola Law School professor found that out of 1 billion v**es cast in all American e******ns between 2000 and 2014, there were only 31 known cases of impersonation fraud.

Trump, during the commission's first meeting, questioned the motives of states that refused to comply with the commission's requests, suggesting they had something to hide.

V**er advocacy groups and Democrats applauded the development.

"President Trump created his sham v****g commission to substantiate a lie he told about v***r f***d in the 2016 e******n. When he couldn't come up with any f**e evidence, and under relentless pressure, he had no choice but to disband his un-American commission," said Let America V**e President Jason Kander in a statement.

Kander added, "Good riddance."

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Just more liberal lies,where is the proof ? You liberals should be happy when we have v**er ID all speculation will disappear so by the way will the Democrats.

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

Bottom Line...I live out in the desert and we don't have v**er
fraud; but anytime there's a bunch of demonrat's in control
of local big city goobermint's the v**es are Never Accurate.

The Demonrats will bus people in, threaten people,hack the local machines,
destroy the machine copied data base of paper b****ts;as well as wiping the backup
copies. Not to mention local electronic v****g can be programed to flip v**es.

Kevyn

With a year long investigation shut down the reason is obvious, the commission found no irregularity and the pumpkinfuhrer wanted to avoid the embarrassment of being proven wrong again.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

When he’s signs his EO and makes v**er ID the law you Musliams won’t get near a v****g booth.

PeterS

So once again we liberals have stymied conservative efforts to save this country from democrats efforts at v***r f***d. Reminds me of the song 'Helpless, Helpless' as no matter what cons try to do they can never ferret out our nefarious efforts to steal their e******ns. No wonder they don't like democracies--they tend to bite them in the ass...

kemmer

I bet that red-hot Trump stooge, Kris Kobach, is having fits.

kemmer

Not gonna happen. Trump will be out of the WH before anymore Republican suppression of v****g rights can be enacted.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

The stories I read about v***r f***d Slatten, seemed to support the allegations of fraud and based upon my gut feeling, the figures of 4-5 million seems accurate. It is important to realize that v***r f***d has been the bailiwick of big city Democratic machines since even long before Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago.

Under Daley, the jokes became "V**e early & often." And Chicago was such a political city that ine very e******n the living v**ed twice and the dead v**ed once.

It was under Daley that Cook County's returns were held up until the rural Downstate v**es were in. That was to see if the results had to be and could be (how shall we say?) 'adjusted.' Illinois could thus be swung into the Democratic column, giving Daley a lot of clout with any Democratic adminstration.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Perhaps it was more of not securing the information to know if v***r f***d was involved..

You don’t know without the information and who in the past cared to know?? They rely on it.. Pfffttt

kemmer

They met only twice; one was arrested for child pornography and another sued the commission because they never told him anything. Typical trumpsters.

donald41 Loc: puyallup Wa

Well the way I see it,3million dead ,ilegals and multiple votord can not be wrong.

kemmer

Umm... What?

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

When it happens you will be no more.Liberals greatest fear that we have one v**e for one person.The old ways of having Black Panthers intimate v**ers are gone as well.

kemmer

"intimate v**ers"??