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posted by martyb on Sunday May 14 2017, @05:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-may-even-get-tired-of-integrity dept.

A press release, dated 11 May, posted to the White House Web site (archived copy) announces (all links and party affiliations were added by the submitter):

[...] the issuance of an executive order forming the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. The President also named [Republican] Vice President Mike Pence as Chairman and Kansas Secretary of State [Republican] Kris Kobach as Vice-Chair of the Commission.

Five additional members were named to the bipartisan commission today:

        Connie Lawson [Republican], Secretary of State of Indiana
        Bill Gardner [Democratic], Secretary of State of New Hampshire
        Matthew Dunlap [Democratic], Secretary of State of Maine
        Ken Blackwell [Republican], Former Secretary of State of Ohio
        Christy McCormick, Commissioner, Election Assistance Commission

[...]

The Commission on Election Integrity will study vulnerabilities in voting systems used for federal elections that could lead to improper voter registrations, improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations, and fraudulent voting. The Commission will also study concerns about voter suppression, as well as other voting irregularities. The Commission will utilize all available data, including state and federal databases.

Secretary Kobach, Vice-Chair of the Commission added: "As the chief election officer of a state, ensuring the integrity of elections is my number one responsibility. The work of this commission will assist all state elections officials in the country in understanding, and addressing, the problem of voter fraud."

Additional Commission members will be named at a later time. It is expected the Commission will spend the next year completing its work and issue a report in 2018.

According to Wikipedia's biography of Mr. Kobach (citation style changed by submitter):

Kobach has come to prominence over his hardliner views on immigration, as well as his calls for greater voting restrictions and a Muslim registry.[cite][cite][cite] Kobach regularly makes false or unsubstantiated claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States.[cite]

As Secretary of State of Kansas, he has implemented some of the strictest voter ID legislation in the nation and has fought to remove nearly 20,000 properly registered voters from the state's voter rolls.[cite] After considerable investigation and prosecution, Kobach secured six convictions for voter fraud; all were cases of double voting and none would have been prevented by voter ID laws.

additional coverage:

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @04:34AM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @04:34AM (#509762)

    Forget the potatoes, forget the potAtoes, let's move on to the tomatoes (however you want to say it), keep them green, and cook them in that special movie sauce! I nominate uzzy the guzzy. Republicans are 100% about monocultural identity politics, which is why their fear politics works so very well. You can't use fear tactics quite so easily across diverse populations. Uzzy uzzy uzzy, sure you didn't turn into an ostrich? Cause it sure seems like you're an ostrich...

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 15 2017, @10:27AM (14 children)

    You've never met or talked to an actual Republican voter, have you?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:36AM (13 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:36AM (#509930)

      I was a republican voter. Then the party went off the rails.

      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 15 2017, @11:18AM (12 children)

        You're buying propaganda if you believe that. The politicians are out of their minds, sure, but no more so than the Dems. The voters though are plenty diverse of ideology, more so than Dems in my experience by a long shot. They're still sheep for giving their loyalty to either major party but they're by no means lockstep with their politicians.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @12:24PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @12:24PM (#509964)

          > You're buying propaganda if you believe that.

          Says the guy who refuses to investigate anything where the mainstream media's reporting confirms his biases.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 15 2017, @02:39PM (3 children)

            I don't investigate most of what I hear from any media outlet. Neither do you. Drop the holier than thou shtick.

            I do, however, distrust anything I read/hear/watch by default. You should try it sometime.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @11:25PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @11:25PM (#510290)

              I don't investigate most of what I hear from any media outlet. Neither do you. Drop the holier than thou shtick.

              Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, dude.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:52AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:52AM (#510341)

              > I don't investigate most of what I hear from any media outlet. Neither do you. Drop the holier than thou shtick.

              Ah, the old nihlism canard - everyone is equally shitty.
              Your incuriosity might be the norm among your cohort, but many of the rest of us are better than that.

              > I do, however, distrust anything I read/hear/watch by default.

              Facts not in evidence.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:00PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:00PM (#509986)

          The voters though are plenty diverse of ideology, more so than Dems in my experience by a long shot.

          Sure they are. In exactly the same way they think evangelical christianity is "non-denominational." [wikipedia.org]

          Until you GTFO of oklahoma you've got no business commenting on what democrats believe. A democrat in oklahoma would be a republican in New York.
          I grew up in Dewey. Then I saw the rest of the country. You should try it.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 15 2017, @02:36PM (4 children)

            Haven't been in Oklahoma for a couple years now. Do try and keep up. Also, I've been to thirty-some-odd states in my time on this rock and lived in over a dozen of them. I am far from lacking in exposure to different viewpoints.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:49AM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:49AM (#510339)

              > lived in over a dozen of them.

              Spending your every waking hour in a cubical doesn't count as living.

              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:51AM (2 children)

                Learn who you're talking to before you spout nonsense, my ignorant friend.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:55AM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:55AM (#510344)

                  > Learn who you're talking to before you spout nonsense, my ignorant friend.

                  The self professed equal opportunity hater of everyone? Yeah, I don't think there are any mysteries here about your unexamined life.

                  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 16 2017, @03:27AM

                    Why do unintelligent people persist in thinking they are intelligent? I mean you're speaking to a guy you know next to nothing about as if you had clue one. Let's be real clear:

                    1. You do not have that kind of magical insight.
                    2. You do not have the intelligence to use said insight properly even if you did have it.

                    Hope that clarifies things.

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        • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday May 15 2017, @04:19PM

          by meustrus (4961) on Monday May 15 2017, @04:19PM (#510088)

          Democrat politicians are a lot of things these days, but "out of their minds" is not one of them. Corporate, sure. Urban, definitely. Out of touch, yeah, with about 60% of the population. Insular, dismissive, elitist, ideological, etc. Maybe even corrupt. But when it comes down to it, these days Democrats are the only group you can universally trust to hold the nuclear briefcase for purely defensive purposes. You don't see Democrats picking fights with North Korea.

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