President Trump announced late Wednesday that he had disbanded his controversial "election integrity" commission and blamed a refusal by more than a dozen states to provide what he called "basic information."
"Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to review its initial findings and determine next courses of action," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
The commission, led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, had asked all 50 states and the District of Columbia to hand over reams of personal voter data, including voters' names, voting histories and party affiliations.
Trump's decision Wednesday "was a change in tactics," Kobach told USA Today, vowing investigation into voter fraud will move forward.
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he moved it over to DHS where it would not be subject to all of the lawsuits that have been stonewalling their efforts
It's unfortunate from a fraud perspective that voting is a State issue even though all the States come together to elect national offices. However, the States need to make sure that their voter rolls are up to date, contain no dead people, and the most difficult, striking voters who have moved to other States. Cross-State audits should be a daily chore for every State.
Write this in to your State's Constitution!
Plus the foot-draggers and stonewallers let them know where to concentrate efforts to make the election system fair, transparent and legal, which is what Americans of all parties, races and genders deserve. Let ideas prevail, not chicanery.
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