Voter commission member says White House voter fraud statements were false
Source: Axios
Stef W. Kight
3 mins ago
Matthew Dunlap, Maine's Secretary of State who served on President Trump's voter fraud commission, says the statements by the vice chairman and the White House alleging wide-spread voter fraud "were, in fact, false."
The details: Dunlap, a Democrat, won a lawsuit to gain access to documents about the commission's activities. He explained in a letter released Friday, "my experience on the Commission quickly caused me concern that its purpose was not to pursue the truth but rather to provide an official imprimatur of legitimacy on President Trump's assertions that millions of illegal votes were cast during the 2016 election and to pave the way for policy changes designed to undermine the right to vote."
The background: Dunlap alleges he was left out of key meetings led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach which led him to request the documents.
Dunlap argued in the letter, "Contrary to what we were promised, these documents show that there was, in fact, a pre-ordained outcome to this commission to demonstrate widespread voter fraud, without any evidence to back it up."
Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-voter-fraud-commission-white-house-2016-election-1533328070-66eab048-1df8-4941-80b5-276c89d81cd5.html
steventh
(2,143 posts)It's very heartening to me to read information like this. It seemed for a while that republicans were getting away with their lying games. Now their games like this one are being exposed for what they are. And I'm so glad to see it.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The now-disbanded voting integrity commission launched by the Trump administration uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud, according to an analysis of administration documents released Friday.
In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who are both Republicans and led the commission, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said the documents show there was a pre-ordained outcome and that drafts of a commission report included a section on evidence of voter fraud that was glaringly empty.
Its calling into the darkness, looking for voter fraud, Dunlap, a Democrat, told The Associated Press. Theres no real evidence of it anywhere.
Republican President Donald Trump convened the commission to investigate the 2016 presidential election after making unsubstantiated claims that between 3 million and 5 million ballots were illegally cast. Critics, including Dunlap, reject his claims of widespread voter fraud.
https://apnews.com/f5f6a73b2af546ee97816bb35e82c18d/Report:-Trump-commission-did-not-find-widespread-voter-fraud
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)were trying to falsify the report be prosecuted?
Racerdog1
(808 posts)There you have it. The orange asshole and his band of idiots have proven there is such a thing as FAKE NEWS.