Thread: Kobach says canceling Trump voter panel will actually speed up investigation

Probe will go on but no longer be done through public meetings, Democrats will now be shut out

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 3, 2018

The vice chairman of President Trump’s now-disbanded voter integrity commission said Wednesday the decision to cancel the panel was a tactical decision that will actually speed up the investigation into voter fraud.

Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state, said President Trump’s decision to nix the panel and ask Homeland Security to pick up the investigation will actually move much faster, and will still be able to look at critical issues such as the extent of noncitizens who register to vote — and in many cases actually cast illegal ballots.

Mr. Kobach said the panel, officially known as the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, had gotten bogged down in legal challenges filed by Democrats, liberal groups — and even one Democratic member of the commission itself.

Now, he said, the probe will go on, but it will no longer be done through public meetings, and Democrats — who had five seats on the voting commission — will now be shut out as the investigation moves to the executive branch bureaucracy.

“It will get done faster, but the Democrats no longer have a seat at the table,” he said. “If they think this is a victory for the left, they are wrong.”

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Trump signs order disbanding voter fraud commission

Wow! This is a complete retreat and throwing the "investigation" into the Department of Homeland Security where illegal aliens are being protected and encouraged through DACA and Catch And Release policies means this effort to get illegal alien voters out of our elections is dead in the water and the foxes are back in charge of the hen house!

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