LIVE: Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is meeting in New Hampshire today and streaming here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10OIBNjudI …
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Obviously this is trolling — Democrats will never support running live background checks on everyone showing up to vote.
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Lott is saying that because you have a constitutional right to guns and to vote, the background check can be identical.
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This ignores that government often loses in court because it lacks legit reason for creating barriers to exercise of constitutional rights.
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Lott points out people in Mexico traveled hundreds of miles to vote despite barriers — seemingly to imply more barriers are okay here.pic.twitter.com/oZtzyobBVj
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Here’s John Lott’s whole presentation to the voter commission: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-dr-john-lott-presentation.pdf …
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Ken Blackwell, for reasons that aren’t super clear, is very curious about misconceptions about whether state or country runs voter machines.
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Also Lott is beloved by NRA — so his voting = guns equivalence seems like an axe to grind against background checks. https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/trump-voter-fraud-panel-john-lott-nra/ …
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Also on Lott presentation at the voter commission meeting: The
@BrennanCenter calls it "statistical chicanery.”https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/fraud-commission-should-ignore-fuzzy-math …Show this thread -
"I don’t see why not,” John Lott on using the exact same ATF system for gun background checks to check voters.
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Maine Sec. State Dunlap on using fed gun background check system for voters: "NICS was never intended to be used as an election tool."
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If you’re tuning in: Trump election commission debating using National Instant Criminal Background Check System (used for guns) for voters.pic.twitter.com/ue00FEKL7F
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Next up on Trump’s voter commission, they’re gonna demonstrate voting machines that have been in use since 1892, I guess?pic.twitter.com/wH2iWsncqy
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These are the voting machines in operation since 1892 in New Hampshire. Behold:pic.twitter.com/waPS85q0fy
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I know it just looks like a wood box, but it apparently counts the ballot too. And it’s 125 years old.
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To be clear: President alleges millions of immigrants voted illegally, but his commission is hanging out, laughing about some old wood boxespic.twitter.com/9bCMMFglRK
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If mass immigrant voter fraud is real, how does a room of white people in a white state chuckling about old-timey boxes fix it?pic.twitter.com/NBkq8dCZzl
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Okay, Trump’s voter commission is taking a 45 minute lunch break. So am I. Back for more rip-roarin' fun soon.
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Trump’s anti-voter fraud commission is heading back from lunch. Thread cont'd. Watch the afternoon sessions here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10OIBNjudI …
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That link is to the live-feed officially provided by the White House, with a link way down on the voter commission's main page.pic.twitter.com/ibwruNwf8C
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To get a sense of how well White House is promoting the commission, the MAIN website is a blog entry dated July 13.https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2017/07/13/presidential-advisory-commission-election-integrity …
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The next panel is "Current Election Integrity Issues Affecting Public Confidence." Here’s the lineup:pic.twitter.com/h8PYgBcFpr
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The way today's meeting works is: Trump’s commissioners listen to guest experts (apparently all white men); then commissioners ask questions
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You can read the panelists’ Powerpoint presentations here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-advisory-commission-election-integrity-resources …
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However, tthis post-lunch panel includes presentation from a *member* of commission — voter hawk Hans von Spakovsky of Heritage Foundation.
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Kris Kobach, co-chair, speaks to claim 5,300 in NH hadn't obtained a state driver’s license — making ineligible to vote.
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Kobach said it may have tipped the state to Hillary Clinton.
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Kobach dismisses reports by media that argue college students can vote in NH even though their drivers licenses' are from out of state.
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Kobach sticks by the assertion that he wrote in Brietbart that alleges mass voter fraud in Senate race:http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/07/exclusive-kobach-out-of-state-voters-changed-outcome-new-hampshire-senate-race/ …
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But while Kobach called it “proof” of voter fraud in his Brietbart article, now he’s using softer language.
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Kobach: "Until further research [on who was domiciled in New Hampshire] we will never know the answer regarding that particular election."
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