What is trump up to with his 'voter fraud commission'?

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Brennan Center for Justice:

Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth.

Studies Agree: Impersonation Fraud by Voters Very Rarely Happens

Courts Agree: Fraud by Voters at the Polls is Nearly Non-Existent

Government Investigations Agree: Voter Fraud Is Rare

http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth


NYTimes: A Seeker of Kansas Voter Fraud Gets a National Soapbox

Kris W. Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, oversees an office whose clerical and regulatory work costs the state’s taxpayers barely $5.5 million a year. But he has parlayed that modest post into a national platform for tough restrictions on voting rights and immigration, becoming both a celebrated voice within the Republican Party and a regular target of lawsuits by civil rights advocates.

Now, as vice chairman of the new Advisory Commission on Election Integrity announced by the White House on Thursday (Vice President Mike Pence is the titular chairman), Mr. Kobach has a far bigger soapbox for his views on voter fraud — which Republicans, including President Trump, call a cancer on democracy. Others say it is a pretense for discouraging the poor, minorities and other typically Democratic-leaning voters from casting ballots.

Academic studies regularly show — and most state election officials agree — that fraud is rare, and that the kind of fraud Republicans seek to address with voter ID laws is minuscule.

Mr. Kobach promised an impartial inquiry into election vulnerabilities during an interview on Friday, saying the commission would “go where the facts take us.” But in Kansas, the facts appear at best mixed, and critics say he is one of the most partisan and polarizing figures imaginable to preside over a fair inquiry on voter fraud.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/us/kris-kobach-voter-fraud.html

[Stinky The Clown]

1. The GOPee is up to voter suppression. 45/140 is simply accommodating that.

[Turbineguy]

2. Voting for somebody other than a GOP candidate

is voter fraud.

[malaise]

3. Real voter

FRAUD!

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4. ACLU: Kris Kobach, the King of Voter Suppression, Will Lead Trumps Sham Voter Fraud Commission.

Kris Kobach, the ‘King of Voter Suppression,’ Will Lead Trump’s Sham Voter Fraud Commission. Be Afraid, Very Afraid.

President Trump signed an executive order yesterday forming a commission to investigate voter fraud and voter suppression after repeatedly claiming, without evidence, that the United States has a “major problem” with illegal voting.

In response to the executive order, the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project immediately filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the government release any “evidence” it has to support President Trump’s claims of voter fraud. Too often in our country’s history, accusations of voter fraud have been used to justify unnecessary and unconstitutional restrictions on the right to vote.

I sat down with Dale Ho, director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project, to discuss the potential impact of the commission and what Americans can do to protect one of the most fundamental rights in our democracy. Below is a slightly edited version of our conversation.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/kris-kobach-king-voter-suppression-will-lead-trumps-sham-voter-fraud-commission-be

[malaise]

5. Precisely

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6. He is already running for the 2020 race

He will do everything in his power to rig the election.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Just nationalizing the voter suppression efforts they been practicing in red states...

A natural progression of authoritarianism. And the Trumplodytes don't care, because they think they are immune. At best, they are farther down in the queue, but that's enough for them.