In May of 2017, President Donald Trump established a presidential commission to explore the threat of voter fraud — staffing it with multiple Republicans who had theorized that fraud was a substantial problem in American democracy. The commission, widely called the voter fraud commission, was immediately criticized as a political creation aimed at a phony problem.
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Trump’s voter fraud commission is gone, but scrutiny will continue
In an unexpected executive order, President Donald Trump abruptly dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which he’d set up after alleging with no evidence that he lost the popular vote because of millions of illegal votes.
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Trump voter fraud commission is sued — by one of its own commissioners
A Democratic member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity has filed suit against the commission in federal court in Washington, D.C. , alleging that its Republican leadership has intentionally excluded him from deliberations and violated federal transparency laws.
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Who’s really in charge of the voting fraud commission?
In the weeks before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity issued a controversial letter requesting sweeping voter data from the states, the commission sought the input of two men on “present and future” state data collection, and attached a draft of the letter for their review — when neither had yet been named to the commission.
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Use of private email by Trump’s voter fraud commission isn’t legal, experts say
President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission came under fire earlier this month for using private emails to conduct public business.
Experts say the commission’s email practices do not appear to comport with federal law.