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Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:31 AM Nov 2017

Voter fraud commission sued by member

By John Wagner
November 9 at 2:13 PM

... Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said in a complaint filed in federal court that the 11-member panel is in violation of a federal law that requires presidential advisory commissions to be both balanced and transparent in their work.

"The Commission has, in effect, not been balanced because Secretary Dunlap and the other Democratic commissioners have been excluded from the Commission's work," says the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. "The Commission’s operations have not been open and transparent, not even to the commissioners themselves, who have been deprived access to documents prepared by and viewed by other commissioners" ...

Besides the commission itself, Dunlap's suit names several other defendants, including Pence; Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the commission's vice chairman; and Andrew Kossack, its executive director ...

"In fact, the Commission's superficial bipartisanship has been a facade," Dunlap says in the suit ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/09/trump-voter-fraud-commission-sued-by-one-of-its-own-members-alleging-democrats-are-being-kept-in-the-dark/?utm_term=.d52c260911f3

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