12 white men to testify at voter commission meeting
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 4:34 PM ET, Tue September 12, 2017
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)All 12 people scheduled to deliver presentations to President Donald Trump's voting commission at St. Anselm College here Tuesday are white men ...
No women or minorities are scheduled to give presentations at Tuesday's meeting -- the second of Trump's election integrity commission, led by Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, a leading advocate of strict voting requirements.
"This is a sham commission that has one goal: to rig democracy in Republicans' favor by making it harder for African-Americans, Latinos, women and young people to exercise their fundamental right to vote," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez ...
"They somehow found a white man who is not an academic and who last wrote anything about elections a decade ago who is advocating for background checks before voting. But they couldn't find one of the dozens of female or minority experts who've studied and written extensively on elections over the past decade," said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research and the former director of the elections program at The Pew Charitable Trusts ...
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