Voter Fraud Hucksters: Foes Of Trump Panel ‘Trying To Cover Up Crimes’

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As civil rights groups and voting advocates question the motives of an “elections integrity” commission expected to be created by President Trump Thursday, a group known for fear-mongering about the prevalence of voter fraud slammed those critics as “accessories after the fact to voter fraud.”‎

“Foes of the commission are trying to cover up crimes,” a spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation said in a statement to TPM. “They are accessories after the fact to voter fraud.”

The Public Interest Legal Foundation is led by J. Christian Adams, a prominent advocate for restrictive voting laws on the right. Adams is a former Justice Department official who helped make the New Black Panther case a conservative cause célèbre. Adams resigned from the Justice Department in 2010 claiming that the Obama administration was neglectful in how it handled voter intimidation allegations against two black activists at a Philadelphia voting site in the 2008 election.

Trump on Thursday is expected to sign an executive order creating a commission that will look into voter fraud, after Trump himself, without evidence, claimed that millions of people voted illegally. The commission is being led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is a vocal advocate for restrictive voting laws.

Numerous studies have shown voter fraud to be extremely rare.

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  1. “The Public Interest Legal Foundation is led by J. Christian Adams, a prominent advocate for restrictive voting laws on the right. Adams is a former Justice Department official who helped make the New Black Panther case a conservative cause célèbre. Adams resigned from the Justice Department in 2010 claiming that the Obama administration was neglectful in how it handled voter intimidation allegations against two black activists at a Philadelphia voting site in the 2008 election.”

    The Public Interest Legal Foundation is led by J. Christian Adams, a prominent white nationalist racist prick who is angry about demographic shifts that are erasing white power and privilege and taking away white/WASP dominance and control over the nation;s government and culture. Adams is a former Justice Department official who abused his position and power to politicize the New Black Panther case. Adams resigned from the Justice Department in 2010 because he didn’t want an uppity n----r telling him what to do.

    FIFY

  2. “PILF,” it doesn’t mean what you think it does. :innocent:

  3. Trump on Thursday is expected to sign an executive order creating a commission that will look into voter fraud, after Trump himself, without evidence, claimed that millions of people voted illegally. The commission is being led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is a vocal advocate for restrictive voting laws.

    That’s one of the scarier paragraphs I’ve seen written here at TPM. I wouldn’t be surprised if white hoods are handed out at the first commission meeting, no joke.

  4. I hope the GOP rs that are not racist now understand that they put in a racist regime.

  5. Not a single politician who talks about voter fraud actually believes it is a problem. It is purely about voter suppression. It’s gotten to the point where they are barely trying to conceal it.

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