United States President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the US election system, three White House officials said.
After signing the order on Thursday, Trump named Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as the Chair and Vice Chair of the bipartisan "Presidential Commission on Election Integrity", ABC News reported.
The commission is going to study the voting system and try and identify any problems, such as fraud or improper registrations, that might undermine public confidence.
Numerous studies have shown voter fraud to be extremely rare.
The official says the panel will include Republicans and Democrats and include current and former state election officials.
During a private Jan 23 meeting with top congressional leaders, Mr Trump claimed that between three million and five million undocumented immigrants illegally voted in November's election.
"He fired the person investigating a real threat to election integrity and set up a probe of an imaginary threat", Waldman said.
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While Mr Trump won the election by 304 electoral college votes to 227, Mrs Clinton comfortably won the popular vote, receiving around 2.9 million more votes than Mr Trump nationwide - a statistic that Mr Trump is said to be irritated by and still does not accept.
Democrats and the American Civil Liberties Union criticized the commission, saying it will likely lead to more barriers for minority and low-income voters.
Dunlap acknowledges some Democratic secretaries of state have advised him not to legitimize what some believe will be a contrived review sanctioned by a White House that has repeatedly made unsupported claims of widespread voter fraud.
The move comes six months after the election - but with a White House in crisis, as Washington and the nation continue to reel from Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey earlier this week.
So @realDonaldTrump is taking his make-believe, fact-free stories of voter fraud to a whole new level. "Any commission which Kobach leads has no integrity".
The commission is expected to produce its first report sometime next year. Even some conservatives admit that such laws, which make it more hard for people of color, people with low incomes, and young people-who are all less likely to have photo ID like drivers licenses or passports-to vote, are actually about winning elections for the GOP. The number of people who vote illegally, or even attempt to do so, is dwarfed many times over by the number of people whose votes are prevented through voter suppression efforts supported by Republicans.
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