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 voter fraud 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 voter data, including voters' names, voting 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 voters to access the ballot box, and to justify unfounded claims made by Trump that voter fraud cost him the popular vote in 2016.

Trump has repeatedly alleged, without evidence, that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, delivering the popular vote to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Past studies have found voter fraud to be exceptionally rare.

Critics also viewed the commission as an attempt to distract from the ongoing investigations into Russian election 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 voter data, citing privacy concerns and a fear that complying would legitimize the idea that voter fraud is widespread.

While there have been isolated cases of people voting illegally, and many voter rolls often contain outdated data, there is no evidence voter fraud is a widespread problem in the United States or has impacted election results.

A study by a Loyola Law School professor found that out of 1 billion votes cast in all American elections 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.

Voter advocacy groups and Democrats applauded the development.

"President Trump created his sham voting commission to substantiate a lie he told about voter fraud in the 2016 election. When he couldn't come up with any fake evidence, and under relentless pressure, he had no choice but to disband his un-American commission," said Let America Vote 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 voter 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 voter
fraud; but anytime there's a bunch of demonrat's in control
of local big city goobermint's the votes are Never Accurate.

The Demonrats will bus people in, threaten people,hack the local machines,
destroy the machine copied data base of paper ballots;as well as wiping the backup
copies. Not to mention local electronic voting can be programed to flip votes.

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 voter ID the law you Musliams won’t get near a voting booth.

PeterS

So once again we liberals have stymied conservative efforts to save this country from democrats efforts at voter fraud. 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 elections. 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 voting rights can be enacted.

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

The stories I read about voter fraud 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 voter fraud has been the bailiwick of big city Democratic machines since even long before Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago.

Under Daley, the jokes became "Vote early & often." And Chicago was such a political city that ine very election the living voted twice and the dead voted once.

It was under Daley that Cook County's returns were held up until the rural Downstate votes 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 voter fraud 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 vote for one person.The old ways of having Black Panthers intimate voters are gone as well.

kemmer

"intimate voters"??