Good news (or, actually, just bad news reversed, but we take what we can get).
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday evening to disband a White House commission investigating claims of voter fraud, ending an inquiry started after he falsely claimed that unauthorized votes had cost him the popular vote in the presidential election.
Mr. Trump cast blame for the commission’s demise on the refusal by several states to turn over voter information to the group. He said he made the decision despite “substantial evidence of voter fraud,” but experts generally agree such fraud is rare.
Ari Berman:
Huge news. This commission was predicated on Trump's gigantic lie that millions voted illegally https://t.co/3SNDpjJDNd
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) January 3, 2018
Huge victory for voting rights as Trump dissolves his sham "election integrity" commission. It faced 15 lawsuits & nearly half of states refused to hand over sensitive voter data to commission pic.twitter.com/mQHUIhZLcl
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) January 4, 2018
Relentless public scrutiny & litigation helped doom Trump's "election integrity" commission. If every voter suppression law received the same level of scrutiny things would be very different for voting rights
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) January 4, 2018
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3 responses to “Huge victory for voting rights”
If voter fraud were truly widespread, failure to get data from a few states would not prevent its being discovered. But even as I write I realize that Trump is not up to that modest level of logic.
That is excellent news; now to undo all the actual voting-related fraud: that which has been foisted on the general public by the Republican Party, in various states, to prevent them voting at all.
David Evans: Well, obviously, it’s the states that refused to provide the data that were housing all the illegal voters. I mean, that just stands to reason, right?