FEC commissioner to Trump: Show evidence of voter fraud

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

A commissioner on the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) called on President Trump to give proof of voter fraud, after he reportedly made further claims in a meeting with senators.

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“The scheme the President of the United States alleges would constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law,” Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement Friday.

“The President has issued an extraordinarily serious and specific charge,” added Weintraub, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush. "Allegations of this magnitude cannot be ignored.”

“I therefore call upon President Trump to immediately share his evidence with the public and with the appropriate law-enforcement authorities so that his allegations may be investigated promptly and thoroughly.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/federal-elections-commissioner-demands-donald-trump-proof-voter-fraud

[keithbvadu2]

1. Stand by for a barrage of 'alternative facts'.

[napi21]

2. I can hear him now. "I don't have proof, I just KNOW IT! I have my people investigating this

to GET the proof you want!"

[lark]

20. I can hear it now.

"You know I'm the smartest guy in the room and when I say I know something is illegal, it's true, no matter if facts don't match. Facts are hugely out of line and are so partisan, bigly!

[certainot]

3. are you kidding? that fact was all over rw radio last summer!

of course it's true and if democrats were smart and were transcribing some of that they would have the proof

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. It's in the safe with Obama's Kenyan birth certificate!

[PearliePoo2]

5. He CAN'T be allowed to get away with this shit. It has to stop.

He's delusional and absolutely mentally unhinged. WHAT do we do?

[cstanleytech]

7. There isnt anything we can do except wait 4 years, that or pressure Congress to remove him under

article 25 and then we get the other asshole as President.

[ck4829]

25. We can do better than that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028557593

[milestogo]

6. Put up or SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[pandr32]

21. Exactly what I was going to say!

My first thought when I read the post.
It is way passed time Donald was asked for evidence. He should be pressed to substantiate everything that comes out of his mouth, his tweets, or through his surrogates.
We need to frame his every word and action as unqualified (because he is completely unqualified). Hard to shame the shameless, though.

[truthisfreedom]

8. This is funny. I wonder what reality tv show script we'll be subject to next.

It's all a bunch of bullshit on all sides. It's all scripted and totally crap.

[briv1016]

9. Does Donald have the authority to replace this guy?

I can definitely see a Yates type situation happening here.

[Stonepounder]

10. I really wonder if Trump has ever voted before.

How in the world could busloads of people pull up to a polling place and wandering in a voting. Has he never heard of a poll book. Over my lifetime I have voted in elections in Ohio, California, Texas, California (again), Kentucky, Missouri, and Kentucky (again). In every single election the poll workers have a book with the names of all registered voters in that precinct. You have to show some form of ID, the poll worker looks up your name in the poll book, you sign next to your name, and get your ballot.

Now, how in the world do thousands of folks from a neighboring state manage to get themselves on the poll rolls without arousing suspicion? And Trump is claiming that this happened millions of times across the US.

This man is seriously mentally wack-a-doo-doo!

[zentrum]

11. I remember reading

....that both Jared and Ivanka were not even registered to vote at the time of the NY Repug primary. So how vote for Daddy?

Always a sign of supreme indifference to the welfare of the whole when people like this, with time, chauffeurs and no excuse, aren't caring enough to even vote.

[Thor_MN]

17. I worked as an election judge here in MN

Rules vary by state, but one has to be registered in the correct precinct here. Voters are asked their name, looked up in the book, asked their address and if it matches the book, they sign and get a receipt for a ballot that they pick up at the next table. Some people are surprised that they don't need their photo ID. They showed proof of ID when they registered. We have same day registration, but you have to be at the correct polling place to vote.

I brought my laptop and connected to the state's precinct finder via the church's free wifi and the other election judges thought that was the best thing since sliced bread (and I do believe some of them were around for the first sliced bread). Anybody who was not in the poll books was sent to me to find out where they had to go to vote.

There is absolutely no way that even a carload of people from another state could wander in and vote. If you aren't from within the precinct, much less the state, you are sent away with directions to the polling place for the address that you say you live at. If you aren't in the poll book, but live in the precinct, you are sent to the table to register, where you will need ID or proof of residence.

[trueblue2007]

12. Rump can NOT provide evidence because he is lying. He has no evidence.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. He doesn't get it.

It would be extremely interesting to learn if he's actually registered to vote, and if he's voted in the past. I'm willing to guess that even if he's registered, he's rarely if ever bothered to vote.

I've voted in 6 different states by now, and I'm quite familiar with how it works. You walk up to the person at the polling place, give your name and perhaps your DOB and address, then give you a ballot, and you vote. Sometimes you sign a polling book. Not always. I voted in a school bond election earlier this week. The voting place I went to (and I could have gone to any of the seven or so in my county) was at a local middle school. I was completely charmed that there were students at the computers where I had to check in. What a wonderful way to get young people to understand the importance of voting, and how it works.

I will confess that the first year I was eligible to vote, I didn't do so, in part because I was a bit intimidated by what I had to go through to register. Since then, I've registered to vote in every single place I've lived, and I've voted in every single election. Registering and voting shouldn't be difficult or intimidating. There is almost no reason why you need to fret about what precinct you're in. The voter registration apparatus can take care of that, and you should be able to show up at any voting place in your state, or at the very least your county, and they should be able to ascertain that you're a registered voter and can print up the ballot you need.

There is nothing difficult about that.

[Justice]

14. NH election - I was there

Worked Voter Protection for HRC.

NH has same day registration. What makes GOP wild is same day registration. You have to have proof of residence or sign an affidavit. Vote counts, no provisional ballot. GOP literally takes list of same day registrations and follows up on each one looking for fraud.

There was no fraud.

[More_Cowbell]

15. Can he really believe this?

Is he stupid enough to believe that the voters for him were undercounted by 20 million? Does he not know how many people DESPISE him?

This, more than anything else, encourages me to keep protesting. At some point he has to realize that he's not popular.

[Achilleaze]

16. These are absolutely pointless lies from the Republican draft-dodger-in-chief

The election is over. He and his cabal of republican cronies gain no advantage from these glaring lies, other than to assuage his sick republican ego with a poultice of self-generated bullshit.

[riversedge]

18. Reuters: Elections official asks Trump for evidence of voter fraud

Glad to see the Lying Trump being told to ante up the evidence



Politics | Fri Feb 10, 2017 | 9:11pm EST

Elections official asks Trump for evidence of voter fraud


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-election-fraud-idUSKBN15Q01O?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=589ebea704d3017d77bc917e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

A member of the Federal Election Commission on Friday called on President Donald Trump to share any evidence he has to support a statement that voter fraud caused him and former Senator Kelly Ayotte to lose in New Hampshire in the 2016 U.S. election.

“The scheme the President of the United States alleges would constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law,” FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement. (bit.ly/2lAnk7t)

Trump blamed voter fraud for his and Ayotte's losses in New Hampshire in November's election while speaking on Thursday with a bipartisan group of U.S. senators, saying that Ayotte's re-election bid was spoiled by "thousands" of people from neighboring Massachusetts voting in New Hampshire, according to media reports.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton narrowly won New Hampshire’s four electoral votes by nearly 3,000 votes, while Ayotte, a Republican like Trump, lost by only 743 votes.

Weintraub, who was appointed by former Republican President George W. Bush, asked Trump to "immediately share his evidence with the public and with the appropriate law-enforcement authorities so that his allegations may be investigated promptly and thoroughly."..................................

[meow2u3]

19. Sure, there's massive voter fraud going on

All those minorities are voting Democratic in large numbers, denying those special repuke snowflakes their divine right to rule like tyrants.

[mr_lebowski]

22. Mere mention of 'bussing' triggers a slavering Pavlovian response amongst the racists in teh GOP ...

All one of their so-called 'leaders' need do is invoke that HORRIBLE specter of 'busses' ... the mere word gets their hamster wheel a-churnin' ... with wild visions of huge, careening vehicles, teeming with so many MINORITIES they're hanging out the windows, clinging to the roof ... and they're all either chanting 'allahu akhbar' or screaming "We're coming to take away a White Man's Right to Privilege and Special Treatment!" (in some furrin-soundin' tongue) in unison ...

That's all they have to say to these people. Bring up them evil, evil BUSSES, man. And every OTHER world that surrounds 'bus' ... must be TRUE.

[scscholar]

23. I have proof of fraud

http://imgur.com/a/SnA9J

Every election I voted in since 2008 has had my vote thrown in the trash. Of course, that isn't the type of fraud Trump is talking about, but there is massive voting fraud in this country. I know when I check to see if my friends and coworkers had their votes counted, which is public record, and not a one did, that there is a massive problem.

[ck4829]

24. K&R