Unbelievably brazen dirty trick: WH working on sabotaging the 2018 election...

[judy]

President Donald Trump will make good on a promise to investigate alleged vote fraud with an executive order on Tuesday, White House officials tell NBC News.

The order will establish a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression throughout the American election system. Vice President Mike Pence will head the group, called the "Presidential Commission on Election Integrity." Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will serve as vice chair.

The panel will be tasked with studying "vulnerabilities" in the voting system, as well as potential impacts on "improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations, and fraudulent voting."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-to-establish-vote-fraud-commission/ar-BBB0RhB?OCID=ansmsnnews11

As maybe a lot of you know, Kris Kobach is the infamous Trump adviser behind "Interstate Crosscheck", which helped take many minority voters of the rolls to ensure a Trump victory.
For more info about Crosscheck:
http://www.gregpalast.com
Edited to add this article:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

This "commission" is just a trick to worsen the integrity of the voting system and making sure that Republicans are elected in spite of their recent fall from grace...
I will write my senators and rep about this, but this doesn't bode well at all...who can stop this??! I have no idea...

[WinkyDink]

1. All Democrats will be well advised to take to the polls their VOTING REGISTRATION CARD. THAT cannot

be denied!!!

[sharedvalues]

3. Abolish voter registration.

Do you need to register to pay taxes?

To serve on juries?

So why do we have to "register" to vote?

Government knows who is voter eligible. The whole registration system was used during Jim Crow to suppress votes.

[WinkyDink]

26. "Government knows who is voter eligible." Say what? And do you KNOW how we pay taxes? Like through

being REGISTERED as property owners; employees; citizens (per capita), etc.

Do you KNOW how people are chosen for jury duty (Hint: We're REGISTERED TO VOTE.)?

You seem completely unaware of what actually transpires when one goes to vote---AND WHY.

[fleabiscuit]

52. We can do all those things without voter registration. Why make it a holy grail?

We have motor/voter registration in OR without registration cards. Vote by mail.

[Pacifist Patriot]

59. People are chosen for jury duty from combined lists, one of which is voter registration.

You can get called for jury duty without being registered to vote.

Having a state-issued ID or driver's license, buying a home, and/or filing tax returns can get you on the list as well.

[iluvtennis]

33. Amen...that's the truth

[judy]

6. Internet Crosscheck kicks people out of the voting rolls

whether they have a registration card or not...
Kris Kobach works for Trump, and will only make things worse.
About 2 million voters were taken off the rolls for "voter fraud" in 2016, just because they had similar last names in two or more states, even when the first name or the middle name was different. Usually, typical African American, Hispanic or Asian names.
Check it out at http://www.gregpalast.com

[MagickMuffin]

9. In Texas and other states they have enacted this extra hurdle Picture ID's

So, you don't even need a voter registration card.

And Kobach is one of the people responsible for some of the picture id's.

[spanone]

12. here in tennessee, they don't want to see your registration card...they look at your drivers license

then they look at you....then back at your drivers license.....

i fricken hate it.

[IronLionZion]

16. And what happens if you look like a Democrat?

No need to vote?

[MagickMuffin]

19. Apparently, we had a little push back from Judges

So, we can forgo not showing photo id, however, you have to sign a statement why you don't own a photo id.

I am a precinct chair since 2008, and I keep a watchful eye on our clerks. Although, they have generally been on the up and up if you can believe it.

[spanone]

20. Thank you for that information...did that just occur recently?

[MagickMuffin]

25. I believe it was in 2016

The other huge win was in Texas, where the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, perhaps the most conservative federal appeals court in the country, balked at the Texas voter ID law, ordering the lower court to make it easier for people to vote.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/05/488748072/stricter-voter-id-and-other-voting-laws-rolled-back-in-slew-of-court-decisions

[spanone]

31. good news....thanks again!!

[WinkyDink]

28. "They" are poll-workers. YOU need to complain formally to the DEMOCRATIC POLL-WATCHER THERE.

[Tanuki]

30. When they ask if I have a drivers license, I always say yes,

and that I also have a copy of the U.S. Constitution, which says nothing about photo i.d. as a requirement for voting.

[judy]

14. Kobach's job

is to stop from voting people who might vote Democratic.
So far, no one has made a move to stop him...

[MagickMuffin]

21. Yes, Kobach doesn't believe in democracy if it means

certain people can vote. He doesn't like minority voters or college voters, because of you know, who they are voting for.

[not fooled]

34. Largely ignoring this has been a huge mistake

on the part of national Democratic leadership. A colossal strategic blunder that just enables the GOPee to keep upping the ante. No one stops them other than the judiciary on occasion, and look where it got them this time--control of the entire government.

If this goes to the Supremely Biased Court, Gosuck will enshrine voter suppression.

Perhaps Dem leadership is finally taking this seriously--I hope so.

Confidence in their ability to suppress the vote likely accounts for the GOPee feeling that they can push through their tax cut for the wealthy, aka AHCA, and also shrug at dump's incompetence. They think they have 2018 and 2020 in the bag.

Massive voter registration and turnout seems to be our only route to fight back.

Oh, and pukes hate democracy.

[Amaryllis]

40. I believe that is why so many Rs feel they have no need to pay attention to constituents. THey

know they have elections in the bag. Dems MUST take this seriously.

[Amaryllis]

39. Someone in justice or intel may be trying to stop Kobach - lots more here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016183538
HUGE: Federal judge orders Interstate Crosscheck architect Kobach to share docs from meeting w Trump

[Maraya1969]

49. Just Wow. I was thinking that this group Trump started will not only effect 2018 but

also will help cover up any left over evidence of hacking from 2016. There is a reason why the Dems were supposed to take back the house and ended up losing seats

[WinkyDink]

27. A photo ID is just that; it is NOT one's validated VOTER Registration card, which is why I wrote

what I wrote.

[MagickMuffin]

32. I understand what you wrote, however,

you don't need your voter registration card to vote at least not in Texas. You can just show a photo id. I've voted like that way before we were forced to show a photo id.

[sharedvalues]

2. Ossoff. Perez. are working on this.

Ossoff has a group called Let America Vote, focused specifically on voter suppression.

Donate to him and say you want election day on a Sunday as in France to make it easier for workers to vote. GOP wants to reduce hours because young workers lean Dem.

Voter suppression is on the DNC radar too.

[judy]

5. In France, they also have paper ballots

That are counted by hand...
They know better than to have electronic machines without paper trails...this is how they defeated full fledged fascism.
I hope you are right about DNC...

[TheFrenchRazor]

57. apparently Holland just did the same; guess americans are too smart for that... nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. Thanks for that info.

I was getting tonnnns of dramatic emails from his campaign. Pretty annoying.

I'm glad to know this, now I *will* make a donation.

[sharedvalues]

41. Wait! I mean Kander, Perez. Let America Vote is right

Not Ossoff, Kander. From Missouri.
Org is Let America Vote.

I confused the thirty-something brownhaired progressives running in red states.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. D'OH!!!

Thanks 👍🏾 I can't keep other than my own state in my mind, pretty much.

[TheFrenchRazor]

56. they need to look at the hackable machines, not just suppression. nt

[Initech]

4. Funny - they're the ones who are most likely to commit voter fraud!

[CanonRay]

7. Well of course they are

They've done it every damn election since 2000.

[JudyM]

8. We need hearings held on the vulnerability of our equipment. And fix it all before 11/18!

This needs to be prioritized by congressional Dems. Why isn't it?

[padfun]

10. Tell those at risk to register as Republican

but vote Democrat. They might not see that coming.

[susanna]

15. I kind of like that idea. n/t

[socialist_n_TN]

11. Dirty? Undoubtedly. Brazen? Probably. Unbelievable? Not a bit of it.............

Why would anyone be surprised by this? This is what the right-wing DOES.

[judy]

13. So true...

Unfortunately you are correct...why was I surprised...

[geek tragedy]

17. a task force with no authority, just a prop to assuage Trump's ego, stacked

with his cronies

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. A task force with an Opposite Day name.

Like pukes always do.

[Tiggeroshii]

18. Is this being challenged in court yet?

Could it be?

[secondwind]

22. good question

[orangecrush]

23. More from Putin's playbook

Hope he is out before the election.

[world wide wally]

24. Dems should make a BIG deal out of thie being a bipartisan Commission

[geretogo]

29. I would like to know what the Democratic leaders are doing to bring Kobach and the other fascist

criminals to court for justice . I see them doing NOTHING , NOTHING . More Rehtugs will be elected
in 2018 because the Democrats will let the Rethugs steal more seats in the House and Senate .

[Crunchy Frog]

37. They don't intend to ever give up power again.

[TheFrenchRazor]

55. correct; they've got a system that works, and they intend to expand and entrench it. nt

[Amaryllis]

38. Interstate Crosscheck is partly what got him "elected" in the first place. We may not have even

needed Russia to do it with CRosscheck and gerrymandering and voting machines issues.

[Amaryllis]

42. Just noted that Ken Blackwell is also being considered for the commisison. He was Ohio SOS

who helped Diebold steal the 2004 election for Bush, Ohio chair of the Bush reelection campaign.

[wildeyed]

44. ACLU checked in on this.

Link to tweet

Kris Kobach, vice chair of "Election Integrity" commission, has been sued by the ACLU for voter suppression 4 times.

Our record is 4-0.

Go ACLU! Maybe we should crash their servers with donations yet again?

[dalton99a]

47. +1

[Generic Brad]

45. This has been the plan all along

Make sure we never have real elections again. That is why the lies are so brazen and the corruption is being committed in full view.

I've been calling this for months.

[dalton99a]

46. Kick.

[keithbvadu2]

48. You don't even have to be alive to vote for Trump

You don't even have to be alive to vote for Trump

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/trump-voter-wont-face-charges-after-being-caught-impersonating-her-dead-mother-at-polling-place/

Trump voter won’t face charges after being caught impersonating her dead mother at polling place

[Thor_MN]

50. "improper voting, fraudulent voter registrations, and fraudulent voting." being defined as

not voting for Cheetolini.

[pansypoo53219]

51. CHEATING IS THEIR ONLY OPTION.

CHEATING.

[sharedvalues]

60. Cheating is their only option

Because their policies are terrible for America. So the GOP needs to cheat and lie to have any chance of getting what they want.

[Honeycombe8]

53. This is the payoff, and the threat, to Congress. "Do what I say, or I'll see to it you're toast."

People are saying here that Trump is going down. But I don't see any ACTION toward that. No strong words by Republicans indicating that Trump is any trouble where it counts: with Congress, and with investigations of collusion with Russia.

If any make a sound of doing anything, they'll think twice, if Trump has a hand in manipulating votes.

[TheFrenchRazor]

54. yet the dem leadership and many here are in complete denial about the machines, suppression, etc.

[MarcA]

58. Those who make access to the voting booth impossible

make actions elsewhere inevitable.

[rtracey]

61. here is the solution

paper ballots, 1 witness from repub, 1 witness democrats, 1 independent counter....per set of ballot boxes, or machines that have been manufactured and maintained by someone not affiliated or related to a government agency or official.