re: Voter Fraud Commission Disolved.

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Good point, some states cooperated. Did they not find ANY evidence there? Something to prove this is not a wild goose hunt?

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So, absence of evidence in some states proves innocence of all?

If the police have 50 suspects in a murder investigation and they find no evidence against the first 25 they question, should they turn loose the rest of the suspects based on the innocence of the others?

fricking liberal logic.

Can you not say the states they did investigate do not have a voter fraud problem? Otherwise why didn't they release something?

The Dems had a fillibuster proof majority for over 100!days. Fwiw.

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stated the request to you multiple times.

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Cool so we can ease up on the election fraud talk now?

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Ebbandflow

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You're too stupid, and more importantly disingenuous, so nevermind.

I don't debate with retards. Sorry.

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Maybe nothing was found, but what about the states that wouldn't cooperate? Does absence of voter fraud in some states prove absence of voter fraud in all states?

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A completely ridiculous statement. I never said anything close to that.

I did say that Kobach came out and claimed they had evidence of voter fraud in Massachusetts. And nothing became of it. What happened? Why didn't they follow up there?

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I don't know. Can you prove that they didn't find any fraud?

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One side claimed there was blatant voter fraud, which should be provable.

The other side claims there was not voter fraud. Asking for that side to prove there was no voter fraud is asking them to prove a negative. It doesn't work that way.

Jesus, another idiot. Sigh

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"Reports of discovery of a database, accessible on the internet, containing voter records of 191 million Americans, has alarmed many privacy advocates and concerned citizens. Yet the most remarkable thing about this database is simply that it’s in a convenient form, or at least convenient for those with just the right technical skills to find and use it.



One thing that is private everywhere: how you voted. The contents of ballots are always secret.

Other voter data is largely a matter of public record. It’s collected for public purposes, not private ones, and there’s no opt-out on sharing this information. Voter records may contain facts about individuals, including…

Name
Street address
Party affiliation
Elections in which you did (or did not) vote
Phone number
Email address
And how can the data be used? While each state sets its own rules, voter data from every state is available for some uses. If you’ve noticed poll watchers at your polling place, you were seeing voter data in action, used by a campaign to keep track of who has and has not voted, to guide phone banks and other efforts to bring out the vote. Many states put no restrictions on use, so voter data may also be used for issue politics, charitable solicitation and commercial marketing.

But voter data records are not necessarily easy for most people to obtain or use. Reaching out to governments for data requires a certain level of know-how just to make the request, let alone to work with large and often complex data files. That’s why specialists, such as GOP Data Center (for Republicans) and NGP VAN (for Democrats) supply data in accessible forms for election campaigns. Political software firm NationBuilder has released a statement acknowledging that some of the data may have come from “data [NationBuilder makes] available for free to campaigns.”

These specialists make it easier for political campaigns to do their work. Effective use of the voter database was a major factor in the 2008 and 2012 Obama for America campaigns. (I wrote more about use of this data by the Obama for America campaign in the book, Data Mining for Dummies. You can find it in many public libraries.)



Voter data vendors don’t want public releases of their databases. They invest in getting the data well-organized to make it available to their clients, not hackers. But movement of data can be hard to control, as this incident, and the recent breach of a Democratic voter database make clear.

President Donald Trump abruptly shut down his signature voter fraud commission on Wednesday and instead kicked the issue to the Department of Homeland Security.

The announcement comes just a week after Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has been running the commission's day-to-day operations in place of Vice President Mike Pence, its official chairman, said the panel would meet later this month.

Trump formed the commission last May to examine the U.S. electoral system for evidence of large-scale voter fraud. He has claimed, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election.

Image: President Donald Trump
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The commission, formally called the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, has been bedeviled by internal dissension, threats of litigation and the refusal of some states to provide information. Its last known meeting was Sept. 12.

"Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry," Trump said in a brief statement early Wednesday evening.

"Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action."

Related: Trump's voter fraud panel has gone dark. Members don't know why.

Homeland Security has already been investigating allegations of Russian tampering with voter registration systems in at least 20 states.

From the beginning, the commission has been heavily criticized for seeking massive amounts of voter data from every state. Many states have refused to cooperate.

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October 2017: Member of Trump's voter fraud panel speaks out

The panel has been sued by civil liberties and privacy rights advocates, including one of its own members, and multiple ethics watchdogs have filed complaints. David Dunn, a Democratic member of the panel, died in October, leaving the group with seven Republicans and four Democrats.

Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, a federal watchdog agency, said last year that it would investigate the commission's funding, internal operations and handling of tens of millions of sensitive voter files. Trump's statement gave no indication what could happen to the sensitive voter files in the commission's possession, which the GAO said number in the tens of millions.

Related: Meet the bitterly divided members of Trump's vote fraud panel

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York called the commission "a front to suppress the vote" and to "perpetrate dangerous and baseless claims" on Wednesday night.

"This shows that ill-founded proposals that just appeal to a narrow group of people won't work, and we hope they’ll learn this lesson elsewhere," Schumer said on Twitter.

Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit advocacy group, also welcomed the news, calling the commission "a vehicle launched for the sole purpose of laying the groundwork to promote voter suppression policies on a national scale."

The Lawyer's Committee brought one of the lawsuits against the commission last year. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the commission in December to stop withholding documents from the panel's Democratic members.

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"Today's executive order disbanding the commission is a victory for those who are concerned about ensuring access to the ballot box across the country," Clarke told NBC News.

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One thing that is private everywhere: how you voted. The contents of ballots are always secret.

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So, you actually learned this just now?

Because you stated that "they wanted information on who they voted for in every election".

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, you actually learned this just now?

Because you stated that "they wanted information on who they voted for in every election".

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Didn't read all of it did you come a retard. If you had, then you would know that the absentee ballots are also part of the information that was requested