Discussion: Trump Admin Defends 'Voter Fraud' Probe In Court Against Privacy Lawsuit

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I hope the Judge asks them the basis for needing this information as none exists.

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The DOJ lawyer responded that because the “election integrity” commission is not an official government agency, it does not have to abide by these rules.

If they aren’t “official,” they should be shut down, then.

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Kobach has already all but acknowleged he needs it for some sketchy electoral campaign of his, no??

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Pretty sickening, the synergy between a party that systematically suppresses votes and a President mentally ill enough to believe massive voter fraud robbed him of a popular-vote victory. I don’t think any of us watching Barack’s inaugural in 2009 imagined we’d have slid back quite this far. Just got to slog on though. Hope the courts can mostly bat this thing down. Happy Saturday, everyone. :unamused:

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And why is a Pentagon website hosting this information? Trump’s “black helicopter” friends won’t be happy.

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It’s maybe just oh-so-judgmental me again!

But if you dare, doesn’t his grinning puss just fairly SCREAM to you, "KICK ME, I’M STUPID!??

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OMG, that’s the exact line that I honed in on. That admission is fatal to their case and will sink them.

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They are admitting they have no statutory authority. This has to be the most incompetent administration I have ever seen.

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Exactly. But it’s what’s going to save us.

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“Presidentin’ is hard!”

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Who knew?

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BUT – if the trumpists collect all the voter data themselves, then we would not even need the assistance of Russian hackers to achieve the desired electoral outcomes. We are losers if we reject their genius!

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That’s the key point. When a federal judge asks the DOJ to identify evidence of fraud, the GOP is going to hand over a blank file.

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Nor should they receive any funding whatsoever.

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Remember all the screaming about the collection of census data? What happened to all those right wingers who thought that was so intrusive?

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Photo caption: “I’m with stupid.”

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Is Kobach keeping a low profile because he’s afraid of criticism?

Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who helps run President Donald Trump’s commission on election integrity, has blamed “fake news” and “obstruction by a handful of state politicians” for a mass refusal to give the panel data on millions of registered voters.

But given the chance to deliver that message to his counterparts in person this weekend at a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State, Kobach is apparently taking a pass.

“Talk about conspicuously absent,” California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a Friday phone call with Mic from the convention site in Indianapolis.

Kobach is “lodging criticism at those of us not seeking to fulfill his requests for data by saying, ‘What do we have to hide?’” Padilla said. “What did he have to hide by not showing up?”

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I bet Edward Snowden is outraged.

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At the moment of “No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet” we started to know.

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