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deminks

(11,018 posts)
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:37 PM Dec 2017

Trumps voter fraud panel has gone dark. Members dont know why.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-voter-fraud-panel-has-gone-dark-members-don-n827796?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np

No one seems to know what's going on lately with President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission — not even its own members.

"I have not heard anything since the New Hampshire meeting," the state's secretary of state, Bill Gardner, told NBC News, referring to the commission's Sept. 12 gathering, the panel's most recent.

Alan King, another Democrat serving on the commission, said he can't even get his emails answered.

"It's my understanding that this commission is supposed to submit its recommendations in March 2018," said King, the chief election official in Jefferson County, Alabama, adding that he was frustrated by the nonresponse. "I’m wondering when you take a two-and-half-month hiatus from meeting. ... I obviously think anyone would have concerns how a deadline like that is supposed to be met."

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Trumps voter fraud panel has gone dark. Members dont know why. (Original Post) deminks Dec 2017 OP
Plotting Their Next Nefarious Move, Perhaps? dlk Dec 2017 #1
They have not received their orders from Putin yet. dhol82 Dec 2017 #2
I think I knew why bearsfootball516 Dec 2017 #3
It was never intended to do anything. MineralMan Dec 2017 #4
Yep. They were hoping everyone would just forget about them, too. GoCubsGo Dec 2017 #8
he can now crow to his base onethatcares Dec 2017 #5
kick jpak Dec 2017 #6
Are these all Democrats that don't know what is going on? MiniMe Dec 2017 #7

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
2. They have not received their orders from Putin yet.
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:43 PM
Dec 2017

He’s probably waiting to see how much Mueller knows before he proceeds.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
3. I think I knew why
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:43 PM
Dec 2017

Because all of the members knew it was a bullshit panel, there was no way they were going to find any voter fraud, so they basically disbanded it without officially closing the group, because Trump knows it would look really bad for his base if he did that.

MineralMan

(146,339 posts)
4. It was never intended to do anything.
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:44 PM
Dec 2017

It's just a campaign strategy. Now that Herr Drumpf is in office, he's forgotten all about it. He can't remember anything any longer.

onethatcares

(16,195 posts)
5. he can now crow to his base
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 02:55 PM
Dec 2017

that he followed through with a campaign promise to pursue voter fraud.

his base, being dumber than a brick, will cheer and give high fives to each other .

MiniMe

(21,722 posts)
7. Are these all Democrats that don't know what is going on?
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:13 PM
Dec 2017

If so, my guess would be that the voting commission is meeting and purposely leaving out the dems. It is a damn dictatorship

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