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The Pence-Kobach Commission was itself a fraud, designed not to protect the integrity of the vote but to intimidate voters, especially people of color, and suppress the vote. Our statement on it being disbanded:
While it’s entirely possible that @realDonaldTrump convinced himself that voter fraud cost him the popular vote, not only does no serious person believe that occurred, no honest and knowledgeable person believes there is a problem of voter fraud in this country.
There are serious election integrity problems in the United States. Voter fraud is just not one of them.
Vast numbers of people – especially people of color, low-income persons and students – are denied the franchise, by design, because of voter suppression measures that have spread across the country in the wake of the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
In states like Florida, more than 1.5 million felons who have served their time are denied the right to vote by law.
There are major concerns about the integrity of voting systems, with old and vulnerable technology in use across the country.
Thanks in large part to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, a tiny handful of Big Money contributors continue to fundamentally distort elections from expressions of the will of the people into theater staged by the oligarchy.
Solutions are at hand to deal w/ all of these problems, but the Pence-Kobach Commission had no interest in those solutions or even acknowledging those real problems. It was set up to offer dangerous solutions (more voter suppression) to solve a non-existent problem (voter fraud).
The @WhiteHouse’s statement on the dismantling of the sham voting commission was uncharacteristically truthful. It is being disbanded because states refused to collaborate, and it was bogged down in litigation and a lightning rod of opposition.
Score another victory for the democratic resistance, which shut down one of the more shameful political projects in American history.
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