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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 10:19 AM Jun 2017

Trump Names Voter ID Pusher Hans Von Spakovsky To Bogus Voter Fraud Panel

Source: Talking Points Memo




By TIERNEY SNEED Published JUNE 30, 2017 9:36 AM

President Trump is appointing Heritage Foundation scholar and voting restrictions proponent Hans Von Spakovsky to the sketchy new presidential “elections integrity” commission, the White House announced Thursday evening.

Von Spakovsky served in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department during an era when the agency came under fire for politicizing voting rights issues. Von Spakovsky approved Georgia’s voter ID law, over the objections of career DOJ employees. Since leaving the federal government, he has continued to be an advocate for restrictive voting laws and has fanned the unsubstantiated fears about voter fraud.

He will be a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which is being led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is also a prominent pusher of voter restrictions. The commission was created by Trump in light of his baseless claims that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election and civil rights groups fear it will be used as a trojan horse to promote more restrictive voting laws.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hans-von-spakovsky-trump-elections-commission

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groundloop

(11,523 posts)
1. Well hell yeah... only the "proper" people should be allowed to vote
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 10:31 AM
Jun 2017

Their game here is pretty obvious, they've already requested personal information on every single registered voter from all states. They're looking for any way to cull people from the voting rolls who have an inclination to vote for the 'wrong' candidates.

Fucking bastards.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
5. Hey ass*****s you want to know what voter fraud is all about, well here it is
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jun 2017
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-electoral-college/3641172.html


your f****g ass**** sexual predator, lost by almost 2.9 million votes (Popular votes), he lost he's a LOSER, the only and I mean the only reason why he's sitting in the white house, is because of the electoral college , that is a FACT.






MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
9. Hey wasn't there something about if there were enough
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 06:52 PM
Jun 2017

responses to something the White House had to respond? Is that still active? We could tweek him with that.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
10. He never takes down anything , I think there is a response line to this invasion of privacy. I am
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 10:12 AM
Jul 2017

thinking of going to the ACLU to file a complaint in my state to see if the Sec. of State is going to hand this information over, that's not how voting works in this country, we are not a authoritarian country, even though some are trying there hardest to jump that shark.

 

onit2day

(1,201 posts)
8. Election integrity? He has no integrity.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 01:04 PM
Jun 2017

Forced to resign from the DOJ as a partisan piggy he is an example of voter suppression. Makes this commission even more ridiculous

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