Discussion: Pence, Kobach To Lead Trump's Bogus 'Election Integrity' Commission

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Sergey! Step forward Sergey. Surely you plan to follow thru on that meeting yesterday.

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A bit OT here, but didn’t our great liar-in-chief have some kind of secret plan to get rid of ISIS in like 30 days?

Election Integrity my ass.

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The few things they’re actually doing are laughable.

The rest of their energy is spent on the cover up.

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Honest to GOD
you can’t make this crap up. Appoint the Chief-I’mgonnafkupvotinginthiscountry-dickwad and appoint him to screwing America
It’s OUT OF KANSAS now peeps!

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Policy proposals to come from this commission:

  1. You can only register to vote on the 7th Wednesday of each month, and only between 10:30 and 11:30.
  2. Poll workers can bar you from voting if you (A) look like you’re on public assistance, (B) seem foreign, © are a woman but not “grabbable”.
  3. State legislatures (R only, naturally) can toss out as many “urban” votes as they please.
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Distraction? Ever since this was first announced (Pence only at that time), what this looked like to me is voter suppression going federal. The GOP is using every lever of power to retain permanent control of the nation. 2016 may have been our last free election.

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I’m feeling more confident now that Pence will not be around to finish this commission’s “work.” Glenn Thrush–hardly some out-there commentator–said on Morning Joe today that Pence was “in the room” on the Flynn conversations. He is implicated too and totally lying about it.

When Trump goes down–and he will–he’s taking Pence with him.

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So you’ve got a guy who has repeatedly been slapped down for lawbreaking heading the commission, and they really expect democrats to get on board. Somehow I’m doubtful.

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A better headline:
“Fox Guards Henhouse Against Vicious Animal”

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I hope there is no taxpayer money involved in this crap!

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Was 2016 a “free election”? i suggest not.

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From the article: ““The commission will also examine the issue of voter suppression, officials said.”

CORRECTION: “The commission views implementing voter suppression schemes as its goal, the reason Trump created it, officials should have said"

–> Fixed it for you. No charge.

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Trump needs to appoint this guy to the Commission too:

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Why don’t they save time and money and just write the report now? It would be just the same and just as backed up by evidence (i.e., not at all) as it would be after spending millions of dollars.

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Yeah, I hesitated over that. But I suspect what we’re looking at in the not-so-distant future is “elections” as in – you vote, the GOP pick the winners. That’s a whole level beyond, we’ll make it harder for certain people to vote
but we also need to be careful the feds don’t catch us cheating.

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Will they have to subpoena Kobach’s lunch order every day?

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Nothing laughable about this, unfortunately. It is the beginning, or rather the latest stage, of the forthcoming attempt to fix the 2018 midterm. The strategy involve (1) massive voter suppression; (2) blatant disinformation and confusion, with Russian help; (3) simple outright fraudulent ballot miscounting; and (4) in the event of a Democratic takeover of the house, a claim that the election was rigged and the results should not be accepted. We can definitely expect a war of some kind, too.

At the risk of repeating myself, if the GOP get away with not investigating Trump even as he disables the FBI< there is absolutely no reason why stealing the 2018 election in the mode of a tinpot country should not happen here.

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It’s too late. Every reporter in the world has Woodward and Bernstein dreams right now.

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(1) massive voter suppression; (2) blatant disinformation and confusion, with Russian help; (3) simple outright fraudulent ballot miscounting; and (4)in the event of a Democrat takeover of the house, a claim that the election was rigged and the results should not be accepted

Yes, and not just the House. State legislatures too. And here’s one more thought to take to bed tonight. The Trump administration will control the 2020 census.

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This is perfect, since neither one has a shred of integrity. I hereby dub this the “Bizarro Presidency.”