Bush’s Justice Department, the five-year effort resulted in under 100 convictions – most of which were honest mistakes by people who didn’t understand the rules, rather than intentional, systematic fraud.
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The last time a presidential administration attempted to crack down on voter fraud, through George W. Scores of politicians and organizations have set off on similar quests to prove widespread voter fraud and have little to show for it.Īt least 20 studies since 2009, including one by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, found in-person voter fraud to be extremely uncommon. He was previously the managing director of the Winning Our Future super PAC, which took some $15 million from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to fuel Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential aspirations.Įchoing Trump’s comments at the commission today, Phillips said he is concerned that legitimate voters are being disenfranchised by illegal voters. Phillips first made the claim that more than 3 million noncitizens had voted illegally three days after the 2016 presidential election in a pair of tweets that quickly went viral before he deleted them. “We’re going to release it to the public before we release it to the media,” he said. That way, he insisted, anyone who wanted to test True the Vote’s conclusions could run the numbers themselves. Phillips said the group’s plan is to hold all of its findings close its chest and then make everything public in one fell swoop.
He maintained, however, that the audit wasn’t dead. Reached by phone, Phillips declined to comment on how much money True the Vote collected during its fundraising campaign, how far short of its fundraising goals the organization fell and what the money was spent on. “We knew that this was a project that would take millions, and the major funding commitments haven’t materialized,” Engelbrecht said in a YouTube video announcing the shift.Įngelbrecht didn’t respond to phone calls and emails over the past week from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting seeking an explanation. Six months later, with considerably less fanfare, Engelbrecht abandoned the audit in favor of what she called “targeted investigations.” During the interview, Phillips said he had evidence millions of people had voted illegally but couldn’t release specifics until he spent a few more months preparing a public report. Trump had seen Gregg Phillips, a True the Vote board member, doing a combative interview on CNN immediately before tweeting his support for True the Vote’s efforts to root out voter fraud. The integrity of our election is too important,” she wrote. “Our audit team will include world-class technologists, researchers, data miners, statisticians, scholars, analysts, and subject matter experts.
Founder Catherine Engelbrecht said it would cost at least $1 million. The nonprofit, True the Vote, immediately fired off an email following Trump’s tweet soliciting donations to pay for a national forensic audit of the 2016 election and, specifically, more than 300 sanctuary cities. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity began its work in earnest today with its first public hearing, but the effort took hold in January after a Trump tweet amplified the claims of a Houston nonprofit that claimed 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. The nonprofit group that inspired President Donald Trump’s quest to prove widespread voter fraud won’t answer basic questions about the canceled audit that was supposed to verify its claims. Group behind Trump’s voter fraud claims still won’t show its work - Reveal Close
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