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OMG per CNN just now (Original Post) gopiscrap Jan 2018 OP
wonder what the deal is gopiscrap Jan 2018 #1
This, among at least 8 others: Ms. Toad Jan 2018 #12
Just a distraction from al the other bombshell news today? TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #26
what were all the bombshells dropped today? Did i miss something? :( onetexan Jan 2018 #28
wow that is great news if true SweetieD Jan 2018 #2
it's true spanone Jan 2018 #9
It actually worries me RhodeIslandOne Jan 2018 #35
I remember reading a few weeks ago that they hadn't met since September bearsfootball516 Jan 2018 #3
Yes! I remember seeing a bit on The Daily Show TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #27
They didn't find anything substantive, he wants them 'fired' before they report uponit7771 Jan 2018 #4
Unless, they found republican fraud....by mistake... pangaia Jan 2018 #6
That's a good conjecture. LisaM Jan 2018 #10
Bingo!!! We have a winner! LakeVermilion Jan 2018 #11
Me? A winner? YAY !Nobody ever said that to me before, pangaia Jan 2018 #16
Bannon registered in two states. Jared Kushner voted as a woman. KellyAnne CONway mess too. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2018 #20
Or they found too much keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #22
I wouldn't charge her either. pangaia Jan 2018 #24
The ex-chairman of the Colorado Rep. party went to trial and was convicted last month. Shrike47 Jan 2018 #25
Wouldn't be a bit surprised. nt Susan Calvin Jan 2018 #30
The 3 million stands. Sneederbunk Jan 2018 #5
Damn Straight! Cha Jan 2018 #8
they couldn't find enough people to lie to their fake commission spanone Jan 2018 #7
BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #13
Bwah ha hah!1 UTUSN Jan 2018 #14
Saw That ProfessorGAC Jan 2018 #15
Suck it, KKKobach! Cracklin Charlie Jan 2018 #17
he disbanded it onethatcares Jan 2018 #18
Correction: The Fraud Election Commission... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #19
Good news not fooled Jan 2018 #21
maybe they got what they came for? mopinko Jan 2018 #23
Couldn't find any election fraud involving Democrats or maybe they did doc03 Jan 2018 #29
It's dissolved but DetroitLegalBeagle Jan 2018 #31
There was no there there.... czarjak Jan 2018 #32
Don't get all giddy gibraltar72 Jan 2018 #33
This is a move to block public disclosure lawsuits Mike Niendorff Jan 2018 #34

Ms. Toad

(34,127 posts)
12. This, among at least 8 others:
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:01 PM
Jan 2018
Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, one of four Democrats on the 11-member board, filed a suit claiming that he's being denied access to the commission's records and effectively frozen out of its activities.


https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015f-a16a-dd23-a97f-e36b5c7e0002

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
3. I remember reading a few weeks ago that they hadn't met since September
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 07:51 PM
Jan 2018

Basically sounds like even they knew it was full of shit, so they just ignored it.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
27. Yes! I remember seeing a bit on The Daily Show
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:26 PM
Jan 2018

where a Democrat was bringing a lawsuit because the other members of the commission wouldn't tell him where or when the meetings took place...

LisaM

(27,859 posts)
10. That's a good conjecture.
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 07:57 PM
Jan 2018

That very likely is what they found. I hope someone is willing to go on the record. Was there anyone trustworthy on the committee?

LakeVermilion

(1,047 posts)
11. Bingo!!! We have a winner!
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 07:59 PM
Jan 2018

They talked about equal access to the polls, disenfranchised voters and hacked voting machines; all losers for the Republicans.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
25. The ex-chairman of the Colorado Rep. party went to trial and was convicted last month.
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:23 PM
Jan 2018

He forged his ex-wife’s signature on her mail-in ballot and sent it in. He claimed at trial he was in a diabetic coma at the time. Sentencing later this month.

spanone

(135,947 posts)
7. they couldn't find enough people to lie to their fake commission
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 07:54 PM
Jan 2018

Last edited Wed Jan 3, 2018, 11:25 PM - Edit history (1)

it was bullshit from the start...it was all about trump's fucking EGO

Eliot Rosewater

(31,138 posts)
13. BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:04 PM
Jan 2018

Trump commission on "is water really wet?" dissolved.


No, "water, not so healthy after all" commission

ProfessorGAC

(65,407 posts)
15. Saw That
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 08:06 PM
Jan 2018

So much winning
A guy who is an R from Maine, who was on the commission, said he could not get any information as to what Kobach was doing.
It was a fraud the whole time
How much money changed hands?

onethatcares

(16,209 posts)
18. he disbanded it
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 09:25 PM
Jan 2018

so the members could start looking at all the evidence of his wires being tapped by President Obama. Sheesh, there's only so much a dorito colored presidunce can do at one time.

doc03

(35,453 posts)
29. Couldn't find any election fraud involving Democrats or maybe they did
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:37 PM
Jan 2018

find election fraud involving Republicons.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,928 posts)
31. It's dissolved but
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:45 PM
Jan 2018

He has directed Dept of Homeland Security to review its findings and determine the next course of action.

Mike Niendorff

(3,463 posts)
34. This is a move to block public disclosure lawsuits
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 03:03 AM
Jan 2018

Advisory commissions are subject to public disclosure laws that Trump & Co did not want to comply with.

So they're moving it over to DHS instead.


From today's NYT :

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html?_r=0


But Mr. Kobach insisted in an interview that the commission’s work would not end but rather would be transferred to the Department of Homeland Security, one of the federal agencies charged with ensuring election integrity and one that he said critics would find more difficult to target.

As a White House commission, the voter-fraud panel was subject to public-disclosure requirements and other restrictions that Mr. Kobach said opponents of the inquiry had seized on in “a determined effort by the left” to hamstring its investigation. At last count, he said, the panel faced at least eight lawsuits accusing it of ignoring various federal requirements, including one from a commission member, Matthew Dunlap, the Maine secretary of state, that claimed he had been illegally excluded from its deliberations.



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