Trumps Voter Fraud Commission Is Being Sued by One of Its Commissioners

[babylonsister]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-is-being-sued-by-one-of-its-commissioners/


Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Being Sued by One of Its Commissioners
Maine’s secretary of state says the commission violates federal law and he’s being kept in the dark about its activities.

Ari Berman
Nov. 9, 2017 12:10 PM


Fifteen lawsuits have been filed against President Donald Trump’s controversial “election integrity” commission in federal and state court for allegedly violating a wide range of transparency and privacy laws. The latest one comes from one of the commission’s own members.

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, a Democrat whom Trump appointed to the commission in May, sued the commission in federal court on Thursday, alleging violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, which requires presidential advisory committees to operate in a bipartisan and transparent manner. The lawsuit says Dunlap is being deliberately kept in the dark about the commission’s work.

“The law and good conscience require Secretary Dunlap to participate meaningfully in the work of the Commission; however, despite diligent efforts to gain access, Secretary Dunlap has been, and continues to be, blocked from receiving Commission documents necessary to carry out his responsibilities,” the lawsuit states. “By obstructing certain commissioners’ access to information and failing to allow substantive participation of commissioners with balance in terms of points of view, the Commission and its staff have compromised the legitimacy of any findings that may emerge from this process.”

The commission was founded after Trump tweeted, with no evidence, that millions of people had voted illegally in the 2016 election. Critics fear that the commission will massively overstate the problem of voter fraud in order to recommend policies that make it harder to vote, such as requiring specific forms of ID to cast a ballot, erecting new barriers to registration, and forcing states to aggressively purge their voter rolls. The commission is run by officials with a long history of voter suppression, most notably its vice chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Trump, Kobach, and Vice President Mike Pence, the commission’s chair, are named as defendants in the suit.

more...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-is-being-sued-by-one-of-its-commissioners/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. GOOD!

[malaise]

2. Don the Con's Voter Fraud Commission is

a FRAUD

[Gothmog]

3. This will be fun to watch