Multiple states refused to provide the Trump administration’s voter fraud commission with data on voters.
(REUTERS)
President Trump announced late Wednesday that he had disbanded his controversial “election integrity” commission after several states refused to provide “basic information.”
In a statement attributed to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, Trump said that many states had refused to provide the panel with information “despite substantial evidence of voter fraud.”
“Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense,” the statement continued, “today I signed an executive order to dissolve the commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action.”
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 publicly available data from state voter rolls and sensitive information about voters.
Multiple states — including Virginia, Kentucky, and California — declined to complay with the commission’s requests.
The requests drew heavy criticism from privacy advocates, as well as civil and voting-rights groups who maintain that there is no definitive evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States.
