Donald Trump's now defunct Commission on Election Integrity seemed to really focus on Texas Hispanic voters.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

President Trump’s voting commission asked every state and the District for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’s case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with Hispanic surnames, newly released documents show. 

In buying nearly 50 million records from the state with the nation’s second largest Hispanic population, a researcher for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity checked a box on two Texas public voter data request forms explicitly asking for the “Hispanic surname flag notation,” to be included in information sent to the voting commission, according to copies of the signed and notarized state forms. 

White House and Texas officials said the Texas voter data was never delivered because a lawsuit brought by Texas voting rights advocates after the request last year temporarily stopped any data handoff.

Gee, it's almost as if this whole commission was created simply to prove that Donald Trump lost the popular vote because of illegal immigrants who voted against him.

But that can't be right, can it?

You bet your ass it can. 

Trump's now disbanded election fraud commission admits it did not find any election fraud, and will destroy all of its records.

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

In a court filing on Tuesday, the White House announced that it had not uncovered any preliminary findings of voter fraud in the 2016 election and that it would be destroying confidential voter data initially collected for President Trump’s controversial voter fraud commission, which was disbanded on January 3. 

The revelation stands in stark contrast to previous comments made by both Trump and former commission vice chair and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who claimed in an interview with right-wing outlet Breitbart one week ago that all investigation work would be “handed off” to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), implying that Democrats were becoming “uncomfortable” with how much Republicans had discovered thus far. 

Trump also claimed previously that the commission — created in May 2017 and charged with identifying “vulnerabilities in voting systems” that could lead to fraud — had uncovered “substantial” findings which would be handed over to DHS. 

Tuesday’s court filing contradicted those claims. 

“The Commission did not create any preliminary findings,” White House Director of Information Technology Charles C. Herndon said. “In any event, no Commission records or data will be transferred to the DHS or another agency, except to NARA [the National Archives and Records Administration] if required, in accordance with federal law.” 

He added that “no Commission member was provided access to the state voter data prior to the Commission’s termination and none has access now.”

 "Had not uncovered any preliminary findings of voter fraud in the 2016 election."

No kidding.

Gee, yet another bullshit waste of taxpayer money based on the lies that Donald Trump told during his campaign.

And now they want to destroy all evidence of this embarrassing failure.

Next up, burning all the prototypes for the border wall that will never be built.

Donald Trump's "Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" dies without even a whimper.

Courtesy of TPM:

Statement by the Press Secretary on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity 

“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. 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.”

Gee, now who will chase down all of that non-existent election fraud? 

Kris Kobach, head of Trump's bullshit election integrity commission, is upset because he cannot get to any meetings due to all of the pending lawsuits.

Courtesy of The Topeka Capital-Journal: 

President Donald Trump’s controversial commission on election integrity should meet again in January after being delayed for months because of eight lawsuits demanding its staff’s time, the group’s de facto leader, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said this week. 

Trump set up his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity earlier this year after claiming he lost the popular vote to his opponent, Hillary Clinton, because of 3 million to 5 million illegal votes. The group has drawn criticism from organizations that believe it to be a tool for voter suppression. 

Eight lawsuits sit in federal court opposing the commission from plaintiffs including one of the commission’s own members and groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 

“I’m not aware of any presidential commission that has encountered so much litigation from special interest groups,” Kobach said.

Kobach said his commission hasn’t met since September, largely because of that litigation. 

“Much of the past few months has been spent by commission staff answering discovery requests for information and drafting affidavits and things that like — going through the legwork of litigation, and that takes time,” Kobach said. “We have a very small staff in Washington, D.C., and that staff has been bogged down in litigation.”

Aww, poor baby!

 I would like to feel sorry for this doucheknozzle, but I don't.

This is a bullshit commission, based a fake problem, that Trump insists be investigated because he is determined to prove he won the popular vote in 2016.

He didn't.

And nothing this Kris Kobach fellow manufactures is going to prove otherwise.

However if he is successful in getting it up and running, it will of course be used by Trump in 2018 and 2020 to discard Democratic votes and try and steal those elections.

The guy in charge of the new voter integrity commission is not sure just who won the last election.

.@KatyTurNBC: 'You think that maybe Hillary Clinton did not win the popular vote?"Kobach: 'We may never know' https://t.co/FC26JcqrRD

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 19, 2017

Courtesy of CNN: 

The vice chair of President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission said Wednesday he isn't sure if Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.

"We may never know the answer," Kobach said. 

Kobach repeated this claim when pressed, later conceding that, "Based on the data, you could make some very educated guesses." 

He applied a similar skepticism to the votes cast in favor of Trump, which Kobach said were "absolutely" in doubt as well.

Wait, so we have no idea who won the last election for sure?

Well there is really only one appropriate response to that kind of doubt, a do over.

Yep, let's hold the whole election over again and may the best woman win.

41 states are now refusing to give Trump Administration their voter information.

Donald Trump and Kris Kobach, getting ready to do some voter suppressing.

Courtesy of CNN:

Forty-one states have defied the Trump administration's request for private voter information, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states. 

State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation -- from altogether rejecting the request to expressing eagerness to supply information that is public. 

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which President Donald Trump created by executive order in May, sent a letter to all 50 states last Wednesday requesting a bevy of voter data, which he notes will eventually be made available to the public. 

The order came months after Trump claimed without evidence that millions had voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. When states began to express concerns about the legality of his administration's efforts to investigate voter fraud, Trump called them out on Twitter on Saturday, questioning whether they were hiding something.

Well it's nice to see that most states are standing up to this oppressive administration.

Let's face it giving Trump and his cronies our personal voter information would surely have been used to suppress the vote and alter the outcome of elections all across the nation.

And any president who came to power by way of interference in our election systems by a foreign power is certainly not going to give up the White House without using every dirty trick in the book.

Trump signs executive order the launch of commission to investigate voter fraud, puts guy in charge who sees voter fraud in his sleep.

Hey hey, I see you voter fraud.

Courtesy of the AP: 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. 

The White House said the president's "Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" would examine allegations of improper voting and fraudulent voter registration in states and across the nation. Vice President Mike Pence will chair the panel and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will be vice chair of the commission, which will report back to Trump by 2018. 

Trump has alleged, without evidence, that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in his 2016 election against Democrat Hillary Clinton. He has vowed since the start of his administration to investigate voter fraud, a process that has been delayed for months.

This Kris Korbach fellow by the way is one of the few people in the country who actually supports Trump's paranoid delusion that  he would have won the popular vote if not for "illegal voters."

Courtesy of CNN: 

In Kobach, Trump also chose someone who supports his claim of massive vote fraud in the 2016 election. 

"We do know that there's a very large number," Kobach said on "Cavuto" on Fox News in February. "And it will be impossible to ever know what the exact number of noncitizens who voted." 

Kobach added, "I think it's probably in excess of a million. If you take the whole country. I think it's in excess of a million if you take the entire country, for sure." 

Kobach said it would be hard to know if the illegal votes changed the election outcome, but said that most would have voted for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. 

"It's hard to say," Kobach said. "Well, you would have to then assume that the vast majority of them voted for Clinton, not Trump."

What's even more troubling is that Kobach himself is very involved in voter suppression:

To understand why Kobach’s presence on this panel is so alarming, you need to know his background. The architect of draconian anti-immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama—as well as the mind behind Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation” rhetoric—Kobach has been a prominent champion for voting restrictions. In the aftermath of 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder, in which the Supreme Court struck down key parts of the Voting Rights Act, Kobach emerged as a major voice for voter suppression. He has backed strict ID laws and pushed for states to require a birth certificate or passport for registration, measures that primarily burden low-income voters, including many voters of color. From his perch as Kansas’ top election official, Kobach has launched a crusade against “illegal voting,” winning power from state lawmakers to prosecute “voting crime.” In keeping with most studies of voter fraud—which find little to no evidence of its existence—Kobach has found just nine cases of alleged fraud out of 1.8 million registered Kansas voters.

Gee, anybody want to take bets on whether this yahoo will find evidence of voter fraud, whether it exists or not?

Of course the real test will be if he can find that "evidence" before his boss gets impeached?

I'm guessing no.