In private meeting, Pence vows full evaluation of voting rolls over claims of voting fraud

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post


By Mike DeBonis January 27 at 11:49 AM

In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States to examine whether millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election as President Trump has charged.

“What I can tell you is that I would anticipate that the administration is going to initiate a full evaluation of voting rules in the country, the overall integrity of our voting system in the wake of this past election,” Pence told Republican lawmakers during a question-and-answer session at their annual policy retreat in Philadelphia this week.

The vice president’s comments, captured in a recording obtained by The Post, give the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration intends to investigate whether three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, an unsupported claim President Trump has made.

In the recording, Pence invoked a Pew Research study that Trump has falsely claimed shows widespread voter fraud.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-private-meeting-pence-vows-full-evaluation-of-voting-rolls-over-claims-of-voting-fraud/2017/01/27/1c1fa1de-e49a-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.dbc2b4dfe3bb&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

[kimbutgar]

1. While delving more devious ways to throw more people off the rolls

kobach crosscheck 50 state mandate.


I see blue states pushing back.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Exactly

Outside of a successful Federal lawsuit there,s little the Trumpanzees can do to purge the voter rolls.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Interesting phrase and focus

'voting rolls' but not tampering, voting machine security, electronic or digital
security, vote flipping ... just rolls

You know where he's headed with it ... purging all rolls

[geek tragedy]

3. Oh, is there federal jurisdiction to support this inquiry? nt

[Raine1967]

6. Yesterday on CBS Radio they said he was going to sign an Exec order for this.

I was like this:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Excerpt disagrees with headline. Is it voting "rules" or "rolls"?

[Raine1967]

5. I found it more significant that this was leaked to WaPo

Recordings of closed sessions at the Republican policy retreat here were sent late Thursday to The Washington Post and several other news outlets from an anonymous email address. Details of the Pence session were first reported by The Guardian.

Aides to House GOP leaders declined to comment on the recordings or their authenticity, but the contents match descriptions of the meetings gathered by Post reporters. The lawmakers were introduced by name before they spoke, and the Post spoke with other people in the room who confirmed speakers’ identities.

Pence spokesman Marc Lotter neither confirmed not denied the accuracy of the quotes when reached Friday. “We’re not going to comment on private conversations with members of Congress,” he said.

To me THAT is the story.

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. gawd it sucks we couldn't have Merrick Garland at least on the SCOTUS

to be there when the inevitable cases are brought up.

[Valhallakey]

9. Get on board - own it, steer it

Democratic leader should jump on this train. Make sure it includes a review of electronic voting, making sure illegals don't vote but also make sure everyone eligible to vote has plenty of access, polling places, free and easy id available if that becomes the norm. Many have long been suspicious of electronic vote tampering whether from internal or external actors, maybe this is a good opportunity to resolve that as well.

[Blue Idaho]

10. Except it won't be widespread

It will be focused on larger Democratic states exclusively. This is all about disenfranchising voters and controlling the outcome of elections.

[riversedge]

11. Trump has cited that Pew Reseach study also (same as Pence)-but both can not

read the Report correctly. So sickening.