#PresidentialCommissiononElectionIntegrity

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Jan 3, 2018

BREAKING: Sham voting "integrity" commission disbands, but not before embarrassing New Hampshire

Concord, N.H. - Tonight, President Trump announced that the sham "Presidential Committee on Election Integrity," run by Obama birther, known conspiracy-theorist and Breitbart columnist Kris Kobach, is being dissolved. This comes after months of silence, scandals and reprimands by federal judges on top of pending litigation filed against it by its own members. The commission paid New Hampshire a visit in September, preceded by Kobach accusing Granite Staters of voter fraud wit

Nov 9, 2017

NH should refuse to send voter info and join Maine in suing Trump's sham voting commission

Concord, N.H. - Today, Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, a member of President Trump's sham Commission on Election Integrity, announced he is suing the commission. Dunlap said he hasn't heard from the commission since its last in-person meeting on September 12th at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics. Dunlap says he has been blocked from receiving commission documents and believes the commission "risks becoming exactly the kind of one-sided partisan u

Sep 12, 2017

NHDP Statement: Trump commission full of conspiracy & baseless claims during NH meeting

Manchester, N.H. - Today, Trump's sham voting commission held their second ever meeting at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics. The commission considered a proposal to run registered voters through Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms' NICS gun background check system. Commission member Ken Blackwell suggested that long lines at the polls were a "good strategy." And most offensively & absurdly, the commission head, Kris Kobach, again reasserted his claim

Sep 8, 2017

FACTCHECK: NH Republicans try to mislead voters, gin up outrage in advance of sham voting commission

Concord, N.H. - With the imminent arrival of Trump's sham voting commission in New Hampshire next Tuesday, Republicans in the state are under pressure to satisfy Trump's ego, wounded from losing the popular vote in the nation and in New Hampshire. New Hampshire was the first state in the Trump era to pass a voter suppression law, and did so based on Republican-created myths of voter fraud rather than on the basis of any evidence. Yesterday, New Hampshire Speaker Shawn Jasper

Aug 29, 2017

NHDP Statement: Trump commission request on hold after endangering NH domestic violence victims

Concord, N.H. - Today, New Hampshire put Trump's sham Commission on Election Integrity request on hold after it was discovered that non-public voting information was included in the list the state was preparing to send over. Many of these non-public voters are domestic violence victims whose information is kept private for the sake of protection. The Trump commission request was already taken down a peg by the Hillsborough Superior Court, which told the state it could only pr

Aug 24, 2017

NHDP Statement: Trump's sham Election Integrity Commission plans a visit to New Hampshire

Concord, N.H. - Today, WMUR reported that President Trump's Commission on Election Integrity will be hosting their next meeting in New Hampshire at St. Anselm's New Hampshire Institute of Politics on September 12th. The commission is run by popular-vote denier Chris Kobach and has requested private, personal information of voters across the country, which was promptly rebuffed by the vast majority of states. NHDP Chair Ray Buckley issued the following statement: "Trump's Elec

Aug 7, 2017

NHDP Statement: State agrees to limited compliance, NH should remain wary of Trump's Commission

Nashua, N.H. - Today, the ACLU, Democratic Senator Bette Lasky and Republican Representative Neal Kurk settled with the state on a case that would have decided whether the Secretary of State's office was allowed to comply with the request for private and personal voter information from President Trump's Commission on Election Integrity. The settlement stated that the commission could receive the scanned hard copies of public voter checklists from 2006 through the 2016 electio

Jul 19, 2017

NHDP Statement: Sununu puts trust in Election Integrity Commission led by popular vote denier

Concord, N.H. - Today on MSNBC, Katy Tur asked the head of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, Kris Kobach if he believed that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Kobach responded by sayin "we may never know." Governor Sununu support's the president's commission and said anyone who didn't comply with the request was "playing politics." Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2,868,691 votes with a final tally of 65,853,516, compared to Trump's 62,984,825. N

Jul 6, 2017

NHDP Statement: Sununu & NHGOP ignoring the rules to defend Trump commission’s unlawful request

Concord, N.H. – Last Friday, Governor Sununu said on MSNBC that he would “comply” with the request for personal voter information by President Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity. After signing off on the commission’s request for private data like Social Security information, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner said he would only authorize the release of public information, forcing Governor Sununu to change his position and recommend the same. In addition to co

Jun 29, 2017

FACT CHECK: Sununu trying to have it both ways on Trumpcare, showing Trumpian apathy on policy

Concord, N.H. – Today on CNN, Governor Sununu shed crocodile tears about Trumpcare’s cuts to Medicaid, reduction in eligibility, and downshifting to states. His opposition to the Senate Trumpcare bill is contradictory to his support for a similar House version which he called a “huge win.” This sudden opposition is also in conflict with the provisions he urged Congress and the Trump administration to take up when considering a health reform bill. After the Senate Trumpcare bi