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struggle4progress

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Tue Jul 4, 2017, 01:44 PM Jul 2017

Newspapers rip voter fraud panel

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 07/04/17 11:44 AM EDT

... "As the nation marks 241 years of independence, the most pressing voting issue should be getting those tens of millions of nonparticipating Americans registered and to the polls, so that their voices can be heard," The New York Times' editorial board wrote ...

The Chicago Sun-Times cast the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity as a political tool "looking for any scrap of information that might support Trump’s unfounded claim that millions of people illegally cast ballots in 2016" ...

USA Today's editorial board had a different Independence Day take on Trump's voter fraud panel. In probing potential illegal voting, it wrote, the president is failing to address a greater threat to American election integrity: Russian meddling ...

The Washington Post editorial board .. offered a glance back to a speech .. by .. Frederick Douglass in 1852 ... "Most of .. his speech consisted of an exhortation to comprehend the evils of slavery .. but there was in it an element of optimism, a faith in the power of republican ideals to someday overcome the evil practices of the day and unite people in a way that no bonds of race, religion or ethnic affinity could do — and to create a nation that would stand as an example to the world" ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/340609-newspaper-editorial-boards-rip-trump-voter-fraud-panel-for-july-4

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Newspapers rip voter fraud panel (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
I need to write my sos (Colorado) tomorrow. Excellent material in this article for me to use. emulatorloo Jul 2017 #1
44 states rebuff Trump voter fraud commission Gothmog Jul 2017 #2
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