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L. Coyote

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Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:46 AM Jul 2017

NYT: The Bogus Voter-Fraud Commission

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/sunday/the-bogus-voter-fraud-commission.html

The truth can’t be repeated often enough: The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which held its first meeting last week, is a sham and a scam.

It was born out of a marriage of convenience between conservative anti-voter-fraud crusaders, who refuse to accept actual data, and a president who refuses to accept that he lost the popular vote fair and square.

It is run by some of the nation’s most determined vote suppressors, the kind who try to throw out voter registrations for being printed on insufficiently thick paper or who release reports on noncitizen voting that are titled “Alien Invasion” and illustrated with images of U.F.O.s.

Its purpose is not to restore integrity to elections but to undermine the public’s confidence enough to push through policies and practices that make registration and voting harder, if not impossible, for certain groups of people who tend to vote Democratic.

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NYT: The Bogus Voter-Fraud Commission (Original Post) L. Coyote Jul 2017 OP
This is a great editorial Gothmog Jul 2017 #1
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