voter fraud
 FREE NEWS LINKS

 photo of U.S. Capitol Building  
      HOME    SEARCH

Updates & changes ongoing ....

 ---- Although this site is https-secure, we cannot guarantee that it or any provided links are safe; be sure your antivirus and other security systems are up to date.

Also see: Voter Integrity Commission

          Jump to:   2017;   2018;   2019;   2020; 
-- 2014 --

August 6: A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/?utm_term=.4c9b93db3fa0

-- 2017 --        

Back to top


January 25: After His Claim of Voter Fraud, Trump Vows ‘Major Investigation’
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/trump-voting-fraud-false-claim-investigation.html

January 27: To support his call for a sweeping federal inquiry into his claims of vast voting fraud, President Trump turned on Friday to a little-known conservative activist whose work on the issue has been widely discredited and who has trafficked in conspiracy theories.

“Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, a reference to a claim by Mr. Phillips, who helped create an app to report voter fraud, that he had “verified” such irregularities. With those words, Mr. Trump bestowed the imprimatur of the presidency on new ground: the feverish online fringes of American politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/donald-trump-voter-fraud.html

January 31: Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth

The president has continued to claim voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 election. But a look at the facts makes clear fraud is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to “rig” an election.
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth

February 10: A prominent New Hampshire Republican and critic of Donald Trump is calling [out] conspiracy theorizing president’s bluff, offering a reward to anyone who can provide proof that “thousands” of Massachusetts residents traveled by bus to New Hampshire to vote illegally in 2016.

Fergus Cullen, the former chairman of the New Hampshire GOP, says that any potential tipsters needn’t identify all of the thousands of illegal voters. Evidence of a single illegal vote, cast by someone who boarded a bus to the Granite State, will suffice.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/02/13/new-hampshire-voter-fraud-1000/

February 10: Elections official asks Trump for evidence of voter fraud ... A member of the Federal Election Commission on Friday called on President Donald Trump to share any evidence he has to support a statement that voter fraud caused him and former Senator Kelly Ayotte to lose in New Hampshire in the 2016 U.S. election.

“The scheme the President of the United States alleges would constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law,” FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said in a statement.

Trump said on Sunday he would put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of a special commission to investigate voter fraud, despite numerous studies showing that such fraud is rare in the United States.

Trump has said that fraud may account for his loss nationwide in the popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-election-fraud/elections-official-asks-trump-for-evidence-of-voter-fraud-idUSKBN15Q01O?il=0

Back to top


May 12: Trump has signed an executive order creating the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, and it will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach serving as vice chair. ... [Kobach has worked to] convince people that every election brings a wave of illegal votes -- undocumented immigrants streaming to the polls, dead people voting, people voting in multiple states ... he has managed to successfully prosecute only eight cases of voter fraud, among the millions of votes cast in his state ... Only one involved an undocumented immigrant.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-polling/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

June 30: President Donald Trump is asking for voter names, addresses, party affiliation and voting records from all 50 states, part of an investigation into voter fraud by a commission he launched last month. ... But will all states comply with that request?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-commission-requested-voter-data-heres-every-state-saying

June 30: Georgia to share data with Trump commission on voter fraud
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-share-data-with-trump-commission-voter-fraud/g1cIww5anWQoeiDGbTwa9K/

July 10: Trump Voter Fraud Commission Halts Data Collection Amid Torrent of Lawsuits and Complaints
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/10/trump_voter_fraud_commission_halts_data_collection_amidst_lawsuits.html

July 19: Four Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence Tuesday requesting Kris Kobach's removal from the President's commission on election integrity and for the panel to rescind last month's controversial request ... for voter information.

"The clear majority of our state election administrators -- including numerous Republican elected officials -- oppose the vice chair's request, which was made directly after a secret, unofficial meeting of the commission's members," the letter said. "These actions openly flout federal privacy and transparency laws."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/voter-fraud-commission-kris-kobach-letter-pence/index.html

Back to top


July 19: On Tuesday, more than 70 lawmakers signed a letter asking for Kobach to withdraw his request for voter information last month.
https://www.vox.com/2017/7/19/16000716/trump-kris-kobach-voter-fraud-clinton-hillary-election-2016

July 2017: Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Commission: The Lies and the Cold, Hard Facts
http://www.pfaw.org/report/trumps-election-integrity-commission-the-lies-and-the-cold-hard-facts/

July 24: [Example of a lie]: I say I won a Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer committee has no record of me doing so. When asked to show some proof -- a certificate of some sort, a statuette -- I don't offer it up. But, I am insistent to anyone who asks that, yes, I won one.

It's not unreasonable to conclude in that situation that I am lying about winning a Pulitzer Prize. I can believe that I did and think I am telling the truth. That doesn't change the fact that what I am saying is provably false.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

September 7: Ethics Watchdogs Say Kris Kobach’s Compensation From Breitbart Raises Questions ... “If you’re getting paid by somebody to write about your official duties, that seems to me a clear problem,” an ethics expert says.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kris-kobach-breitbart-ethics_us_59b13f04e4b0b5e531040fe2

November 30: I’m on Trump’s voter fraud commission. I’m suing it to find out what it’s doing ... Why is a presidential advisory panel on elections operating in such secrecy?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/im-on-trumps-voter-fraud-commission-im-suing-it-to-find-out-what-its-doing/2017/11/30/1034574c-d3b0-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.8d3a62b8b587

December 26: Legal Actions Taken Against Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission

Even before the Commission’s first meeting, organizations filed legal challenges against its work on a variety of transparency, privacy, and administrative policy grounds. Some groups’ actions are targeted specifically at the blocking the Commission’s request for voter file data, while others challenge the Commission’s operations and membership more generally.
https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-actions-taken-against-trump%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfraud%E2%80%9D-commission

-- 2018 --

Back to top


January 3: Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html

January 3: President Donald Trump is dumping a controversial commission that was charged with investigating his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud during the 2016 election, the White House said Wednesday.

Trump asked the Department of Homeland Security to look into the issue instead.

“Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry,” a statement from the president said. “Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission.”

“The commission never had anything to do with election integrity,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. “It was instead a front to suppress the vote, perpetrate dangerous and baseless claims, and was ridiculed from one end of the country to the other. This shows that ill-founded proposals that just appeal to a narrow group of people won’t work, and we hope they’ll learn this lesson elsewhere.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/trump-disbands-voter-fraud-commission-322621

January 3: Kris Kobach, who was vice chairman of the panel, said Democrats come out behind because the commission’s work will continue but will be completed without any input from Democrats, who had been part of the commission but won’t have a say in Homeland Security’s work.

“It will get done faster, but the Democrats no longer have a seat at the table,” Mr. Kobach said. “If they think this is a victory for the left, they are wrong.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/3/donald-trump-dissolves-voter-fraud-commission/

January 4: Trump's presidential voter fraud commission was short-lived, rarely met
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-presidential-voter-fraud-commission-short-lived-rarely/story?id=52139919

April 5: Trump repeats debunked voter fraud claim
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/politics/trump-voter-fraud-california/index.html

August 4: Trump's claims of massive voter fraud are baseless, election integrity panel member says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/04/donald-trumps-widespread-voter-fraud-claim-untrue-election-official/905262002/

August 7: Internal Documents Reveal the Flawed Nature of Trump's Voter Fraud Commission

Thousands of recently released documents make clear that the commission's work was driven by a small number of members who were convinced—without evidence—that voter fraud was widespread.
https://psmag.com/news/documents-reveal-the-flaws-of-voter-fraud-commission

Back to top


November 5: Without evidence, Trump and Sessions warn of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/without-evidence-trump-and-sessions-warn-of-voter-fraud-in-tuesdays-elections/2018/11/05/e9564788-e115-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0c6386dc7fdb

November 6: Kris Kobach, who headed Trump’s voter fraud commission, lost his own election

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who made a name for himself leading a commission to root out voter fraud for President Trump, has lost his own election for governor to Democratic opponent Laura Kelly on Tuesday.

Polls in the weeks leading up to the election had shown Kobach and Kelly locked in a virtual tie – with Kobach often just a couple points ahead. The result is an upset, given that Kansas, which voted for Trump by more than 20 percent, hasn’t had a Democratic governor since 2010.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3qjb/kris-kobach-who-headed-trumps-voter-fraud-commission-lost-his-own-election

November 12: Fact check: Trump's rhetoric on voter fraud is misleading
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/12/fact-check-trump-rhetoric-voter-fraud-misleading?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs_ex686D4AIVBIrICh1UIQVcEAAYASAAEgJXevD_BwE

December 6: Kobach ‘very concerned’ voter fraud may have happened in North Carolina

The Republican candidate in the race, Mark Harris, has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready, but that result has not been certified. The state board of elections cited "irregularities," and is set to meet on Dec. 21 on how to proceed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/420192-kobach-very-concerned-voter-fraud-may-have-happened-in-north-carolina

Back to top


December 6: Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, withdrew his concession on Thursday as new details emerged about allegations of election fraud that may have favored his Republican challenger.

McCready’s decision, first announced in an interview with Charlotte television station WSOC, comes as North Carolina is dealing with an unfolding scandal over absentee ballots. Election officials are trying to determine why many were never mailed in in certain counties that likely would have favored the Democrats in the election, and three people have told BuzzFeed News and WSOC that they were hired to collect such absentee votes, which would be a violation of state law.

Republican Mark Harris is currently leading in the election by 905 votes. McCready conceded last month about 24 hours after polls closed in the midterm elections.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-dan-mccready-withdraws-concession_us_5c09a755e4b0b6cdaf5d7267

December 12: North Carolina GOP admits a new House election is probably needed after election fraud scandal

State officials have discretion under state law to call for a new election if the basic fairness of the election is in question.

The strange tales of vote counts being leaked aren’t isolated. Voters have also said an unidentified woman picked up their ballots, in another apparent violation of state law, and an unusually high number of absentee ballots were requested in the Ninth but never returned. A local Republican operative working in support of the Harris campaign has been implicated as the ringleader of the ballot tampering scheme.

North Carolina Republicans originally threatened to sue the elections board if it refused to certify the Ninth results. But they have since backed all the way down from that threat and are now effectively calling for a new election. It has since been revealed that the state party may have been privy to allegations of unusual activity in the district during the GOP primary in May when Harris upset incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger, as the Washington Post reported.

The state board has said it would hold a hearing of the evidence of fraud on or before December 21.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/12/18137552/north-carolina-election-fraud-9th-district-dallas-woodhouse

-- 2019 --  

Back to top





 -- 2020 --

Back to top






 Webpage visitor counts provided by


 

 

copyr 2018 trump-news-history.com, Minneapolis, MN