Donald Trump has commissioned vote fraud commission to prove that he actually won the popular vote in 2016. (Yes, this is Narcissistic insanity)<\/p>\n
He has appointed prominent figures in the voter suppression movement including Kansas Secretary of State Kris Korbach and Hans “Der novotenf\u00fchrer” von Spakovsky, whose primary goal has been to keep blacks and Hispanics from voting, primarily through purging them from voter rolls.<\/p>\n
This commission is a clear attempt to go national with the voter purges in an attempt to gain partisan political advantage, and, in an attempt to go national programs to disenfranchise minorities.<\/p>\n
Basically, the commission will manufacture data, and then manufacture outrage, and use this to jump start national legislation to suppress minority voting.<\/p>\n
This is clear to anyone with two brain cells to rub together, so when the commission requested complete voter registration data from the states and the District of Columbia, over half of the states election officials have told the commission to go pound sand.<\/p>\n
It turns out that, due to vagaries in state election law, one of the Secretaries of State that is telling Kris Korbach to go pound sand, is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Korbach:<\/p>\n
Kris Kobach, the co-chair of Donald Trump\u2019s glorious Find The Five Million Illegals Who Voted For Hillary Commission, has been running into a bit of pushback to his letter asking all 50 states to submit detailed voter information<\/a> to be used in a great big study that would supposedly root out all the voter fraud. At least 25 states have said <\/a>they won\u2019t or can\u2019t comply \u2014 or will not submit all the data Kobach requested, either because they\u2019re restricted by state law, or they don\u2019t trust the commission, which is expected to skew the data to support Republican claims of massive voter fraud, and to recommend restrictions on voting rights. <\/p>\n
Among the states that won\u2019t be giving the \u201cPresidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity\u201d all the data Kris Kobach wants is Kansas, where Secretary of State Kris Kobach explained<\/a> that under state law, he can\u2019t release the last four digits of voters\u2019 Social Security numbers<\/span><\/b>. The state will release all other information requested in the letter, like voters\u2019 names, addresses, dates of birth, voting history, party affiliation, and felony criminal history. Kobach explained, <\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cIf the commission decides that they would like to receive Social Security numbers to a secure site in order to remove false positives, then we would have to double check and make sure Kansas law permits,\u201d Kobach said.
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cI know for a fact that this information would be secured and maintained confidentially,\u201d he added in response to security concerns.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He happens to personally know the commission\u2019s co-chair, after all, and he trusts Kris Kobach not to pull any funny stuff.<\/span>
<\/span> Several other states, however, know exactly who Kris Kobach is, and have decided not to play along with Kobach, like Virginia, where Gov. Terry McAulliffe issued a statement<\/a> saying <\/span><\/p>\nThis entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November [\u2026] At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump\u2019s alternative election facts, and at worst is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n