And here's @vanitaguptaCR, former head of the civil rights division at DOJ under Obama, on what she sees happening:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/opinion/donald-trump-voting-rights-purge.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 …
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This ... is not what the makeup of the commission suggests:https://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/887696565976141824 …
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Trump speaking now in advance of the Pence/Kobach meeting.
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Everything Pence just said was offset in 15 seconds by Trump.
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DOJ lawyer in court July 7: "It's not a demand for information, it's a request." Trump now: If states won't share, what are they hiding?
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"We have no preconceived notions," Pence says ... moments after Trump presented his preconceived notions.
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Kobach, w all of the preconceived notions a person could possibly fit into one body, lays out his views on "voter fraud" & "crosscheck."pic.twitter.com/CrBdi9aMIq
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Kobach literally lumped his own ~expert~ report (i.e., allegations) on top of actual findings before saying this was needed nationwide.
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This is not about facts. This is about Kobach's mission.
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Here is who has spoken so far.pic.twitter.com/5yvtLLFZuF
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A Democrat, Maine's secretary of state, is up now. Matthew Dunlap spoke without notes, talked about importance of access.pic.twitter.com/8Ixmpieyah
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NH's sec of state, Bill Gardner, is a Democrat on the commission. Says increasing access to voting isn't enough, talks about photo ID.pic.twitter.com/XDWVPIL86H
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Probate Judge Alan King, a Democrat in Alabama, notes that he knows about elections from running them as a "boots on the ground" guy.pic.twitter.com/RKAB8MIgpF
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To be clear about Gardner: The commission, which is not balanced between Rs and Ds, also has a D member suggesting photo ID is good.
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Christy McCormick, who DOJ argued is not here representing the Election Assistance Com'n, just laid out things she's done as an EAC com'n'r.pic.twitter.com/6SRrQ295Cd
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J. Christian Adams —> "Elections tainted by fraud ..." "The truth is more important ..."pic.twitter.com/ArHoYd7kpN
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Adams: "For the first time, we have the tools, we have the will ..."
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Mark Rhodes, another Dem, talked about how he had to vote by provisional ballot once. He's a county clerk in WV.pic.twitter.com/Vj6SMvzaxQ
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David Dunn, a former state rep in Arkansas and Dem, is up. He dings the com'n for its initial request.pic.twitter.com/TEWXUtWXOr
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Hans von Spakovsky is up, talking about "problems" and "voter fraud." He's passing out Heritage documents to the commission.pic.twitter.com/VVVYyWx0Kv
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Hans says members of the com'n have been "subjected to vicious and defamatory personal attacks" ... "to avoid a substantive debate."
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The commission is made up of the top GOP people in the country seeking to make voting more difficult ... and a few state and local Dems.
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