President Trump to sign executive order establishing commission on 'election integrity'

Local 10 ABC ^ | 5/11/2017 | Katherine Faulders , Alexander Mallin

[Voluntaryist]

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the American election system, multiple senior administration officials tell ABC News.

The officials say Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will be announced as Chair and Vice Chair of the ‘Presidential Commission on Election Integrity’ in a press release today. It's not clear whether the White House will allow coverage of the order signing.

More Politics Headlines Who is President Trump's informal adviser, Roger Stone? Trump fires FBI Director James Comey The commission, which will include Republicans and Democrats, will be tasked with studying "vulnerabilities" in U.S. voting systems and potential effects on "improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting," according to one official with knowledge of the announcement.

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, Trump claimed widespread voter fraud explained why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged with nearly 3 million more popular votes. To date, neither Trump nor his team has provided evidence to substantiate the claims, but they have promised an investigation.

[FenwickBabbitt]

The leftists really do feel like they can get away with any and everything. There’s a reason they fight us tooth and nail anytime we try to institute even the most basic of anti-voter fraud protections. They don’t just want to be allowed to commit voter fraud, they want it made extremely easy for them.

[justiceseeker93]

ELECTION INTEGRITY - as opposed to "voter fraud" or "voter suppression" - is the appropriate title for this commission. Hopefully the commission will conclude with a series of common-sense recommendations which can be presented to Congress and/or the state legislatures as a legislative agenda which, if implemented and enforced, will substantially improve the INTEGRITY of American elections.

This approach is long overdue, and it's the best news we've heard on this front in decades.

Let's wage war against all modes of election fraud and cheating! It's essential to preserving the Republic.

[justiceseeker93]

Kudos to Kris Kobach for causing the lefty Kansas City Star to have a hissy fit over his discovery of a handful of cases of alleged double voting. If they can vote twice, I'm sure there are some who vote many more times than that. Cheaters have to be stopped and punished!

[Eleutheria5]

B-but that’s against American tradition! What will all the dead people in Chicago do on election night? Poor people can’t get photo ID. A non-driver ID from the DMV can cost up to 14 whole dollars! Didn’t Groucho once urge people to vote early and often? Well?! Would you disobey Marx?!

[Ohioan]

I agree with you as to the importance, but there is also a need to prevent those with clear conflicts of interest from voting in elections where those being elected may in effect be buying their votes. Consider Threat To Liberty.

Unless we demand this reform, it may be only a little while before we lose it all.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks! I passed on the info so that’s how I knew the link didn’t work. Good finds.

[TomasUSMC]

He needs to establish a new national EMERGENCY APPEALS COURT. Appoint all the judges conservative and then whenever these dumb lib judges object to something Trump does, the next hour it can be shot down by the E.A.C.