The Government Accountability Office has accepted a request by a group of U.S. senators to investigate the activities of President Donald Trump's commission on voter fraud.
Delusional Donald famously (and falsely) insists: “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
Kellyanne Conway “named [Kansas Secretary of State Kris] Kobach as a source of the claim.” Kobach--who opposes both the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act--continued to support this claim despite the total lack of evidence, so Trump rewarded him by appointing him Vice-Chair of his new Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Kobach is still promoting this claim publicly, despite having shown absolutely no supporting evidence for it whatsoever.
Numerous members of Congress, reasonably concerned that Kobach and the PACEI might not be entirely impartial, requested detailed information from the Commission on multiple occasions. Kobach and the PACEI ignored every single request, essentially telling Congress to fuck off.
So Congress took its evidence to the Government Accountability Office, which will now investigate the PACEI on multiple issues, including:
“The amount of all Federal funds expended to support the work of the PACEI (including staff);
“The efforts of the PACEI to address voter participation;
“The information that the PACEI used to form the basis of its conclusions, including peer reviewed studies;
“The methodology and analysis that the PACEI employed in reaching its conclusions;
“The steps the PACEI has taken to protect any voter information that it has collected; and
“The steps the PACEI took to adhere to regulations governing its activity.”
In the words of Senator Michael Bennett (a Democrat):
“In its review, the GAO must ensure the Commission’s work isn’t using taxpayer money to support conspiracies long relegated to the fringes of political discourse.”
