Trump has repeatedly claimed voter fraud occurred since his election victory in November over Hillary Clinton, who receive about three million more popular votes. "Neither the White House nor Secretary Kobach reached out in any way to the group", Simon said.
Trump began making his allegations of widespread voter fraud shortly after the election, claiming that he would have won the popular vote - which he lost by almost 3 million votes - if there had not been so many votes cast illegally.
Under a state law he lobbied for, Kobach is the only elections secretary in America with his own team of prosecutors, independent of the attorney general, who can target voter fraud - although his actual attempts to find voter fraud were nearly a complete bust. "They are accessories after the fact to voter fraud".
While most of us were distracted by the firing of the former FBI Director James Comey, the order named Vice President Mike Pence as the chair of the "Presidential Commission on Election Integrity".
More recently, Kobach has focused his attention on combating voter fraud by making it harder to register to vote and by prosecuting alleged instances of voter fraud.
Other names under consideration include longtime New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, both Democrats, and Christy McCormick of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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The panel will aim to ensure confidence in the integrity of federal elections while looking at vulnerabilities in the system and the possibility of improper voting and fraudulent voter registration and voting, the official said.
Kobach is one of the biggest promoters of the myth there is a widespread conspiracy of in-person voter fraud.
Elections officials in several states, however, reported no instances of widespread fraud.
Trump called the alleged voter fraud the most-pressing matter facing his presidency.
The directive tasked the commission to formulate a report for the president by 2018.
Trump has asserted he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election had it not been for illegal votes cast. Last month, Kobach got his first conviction of a noncitizen who illegally voted in a Kansas election without being a USA citizen. President Trump has been adamant that 3-5 million people voted illegally last November - but his supporters have offered up nothing near that level of fraud. After Kobach won a conviction against a man who voted twice in an election earlier this month, the Kansas City Star lampooned Kobach for his single-minded pursuit of what the article dubbed a "non-issue".
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