Voting panel apologizes after judge calls failure to disclose information 'incredible'
By Spencer S. Hsu
August 30 at 7:26 PM
A federal judge on Wednesday tore into .. Trump’s voter commission for reneging on a promise to fully disclose public documents before a July 19 meeting, ordering the government to meet .. transparency requirements and eliciting an apology from administration lawyers.
.. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly .. said the Election Integrity Commission released only an agenda and proposed bylaws before its first meeting at the White House complex last month.
But once gathered, commissioners had .. documents the public had not seen, including a specially prepared report and a 381-page "database" purporting to show 1,100 cases of voter fraud, both from the .. Heritage Foundation. The group also received a typed list of possible topics to address from the panel vice chairman .. Kris W. Kobach.
Kollar-Kotelly said the panel’s after-the-fact argument was “incredible” when it said it did not believe documents prepared by individual commissioners for the July meeting had to have been posted in advance ...
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