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Sham Election Commission Needs to Shut Down
Panel’s clear
aim is voter
suppression
m arc h. m orial
It was clear from
the moment it was
announced that the
federal “Election In-
tegrity Commission”
was nothing more
than a vehicle for voter suppres-
sion.
With an intrusive request for
personal voter information, the
commission has ventured into the
territory of intimidation. Fortu-
nately, state officials aren’t having
it. At least 44 states, including Or-
egon, are refusing to comply with
the request, wholly or in part.
“I find this request for the per-
sonal information of millions of
Marylanders repugnant; it appears
designed only to intimidate voters
and to indulge President Trump’s
fantasy that he won the popular
vote,” Maryland Attorney General
Brian E. Frosh wrote in response
to the request.
In my home state of Louisiana,
Secretary of State Tom Schedler
said, “My response to the Com-
mission is, you’re not going to
play politics with Louisiana’s vot-
by
er data.”
Even in the deep-red state of
Mississippi, Secretary of State
Delbert Hosemann told the Com-
mission, “Go jump in the Gulf.”
I’m proud of the nation’s state
officials for standing firm in
defending the rights of their
constituents and resisting an
obvious ploy to invade citizens’
privacy and restrict their right to
vote.
The commission’s vice chair,
Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach, has repeatedly lost in
lawsuits filed by the ACLU over
his efforts to make it harder for
people to register and vote. Last
month, a federal magistrate judge
fined him $1,000 for misleading
the court by attempting to shield
against Kobach, accusing him of
repeatedly exploiting his Com-
mission role to promote his candi-
dacy for Kansas Governor and to
solicit campaign contributions.
“We deem the President’s Elec-
tion Integrity Commission to be
a baseless tool to promote voter
suppression and Mr. Kobach’s un-
lawful abuse of his role as head of
the Commission for partisan ends
only underscores the illegitimacy
of the Commission itself,”, Law-
yer’s Committee President and
Executive Director Kristen Clarke
said.
The 2014 report of the Presi-
dential Commission on Election
Administration -- headed by Mitt
Romney’s lawyer Ben Ginsberg
and President Obama’s lawyer
It’s unlikely the current
administration is looking to implement
those bipartisan recommendations; the
report has been removed from the federal
government’s website.
a document regarding his advice
to Trump on how to make voter
registration harder. And just last
week, the Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law filed
a formal Hatch Act Complaint
Bob Bauer – made several key
recommendations:
• Modernization of the regis-
tration process through continued
expansion of online voter registra-
tion and expanded state collabora-
tion in improving the accuracy of
voter lists;
• Measures to improve access to
the polls through multiple opportu-
nities to vote before the traditional
Election Day and the selection of
suitable, well-equipped polling
place facilities, such as schools;
• State-of-the-art techniques
to assure efficient management
of polling places, including tools
the commission is publicizing and
recommending for the efficient al-
location of polling place resourc-
es; and
• Reforms of the standard-set-
ting and certification process for
new voting technology to address
soon-to-be antiquated voting ma-
chines and to encourage innovation
and the adoption of widely avail-
able off-the-shelf technologies.
It’s unlikely the current admin-
istration is looking to implement
those bipartisan recommenda-
tions; the report has been removed
from the federal government’s
website.
With the vast majority of states
opposed to cooperating with the
Commission, it’s time to kill this
insidious, anti-democratic sham.
Kill the commission, and work
together on expanding democracy.
Marc H. Morial is president
and chief executive officer of the
National Urban League.