TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “A federal watchdog agency will investigate President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission, it was announced Thursday [10-26-17].
The Government Accountability Office plans to probe the voter fraud panel’s funding, internal operations and how it is protecting and sorting the tens of millions of sensitive voter files the commission has collected.
The announcement comes after three Democratic senators — Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Michael Bennet of Colorado and Cory Booker of New Jersey — sent a letter last week urging the agency to investigate the commission, saying it had ignored several requests from Congress aimed at understanding its work. The senators said the panel’s creation and operations were ’cause for serious concern.’
The senators wrote that they fear the way the commission is conducting its work will ‘prevent the public from full and transparent understanding of the commission’s conclusions and unnecessarily diminish confidence in our democratic process.’
In a letter Wednesday to the lawmakers, the GAO said it had accepted the request. The agency said the investigation would begin in about five months.
Trump formed the commission in May through executive order to examine voter fraud.”
-Dartunorro Clark, “Probe Launched Into Trump Voter Fraud Panel,” NBC News, Oct. 26, 2017 12:59pm