Trump's 'voter fraud' commission is dead – but activists fear new DHS push
Panel pushed by Kris Kobach was a ‘shit show’ but Kansas secretary of state is now looking to immigration and homeland security to fuel effort
Donald Trump’s quixotic year-long quest to prove the 2016 election was marred by millions of fraudulent votes has become, in the words of White House insiders, a “shit show” that appears unlikely to fare much better now the effort is shifting from a widely loathed presidential commission to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Voting rights activists rejoiced this week when the White House announced it was abandoning the eight-month-old Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a body run by some of the country’s most notorious advocates of voter suppression.
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