TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Hours after shuttering his controversial voter fraud commission, President Donald Trump called Thursday [1-4-18] morning for voter identification laws and pushed once again his baseless assertion that ‘many people are voting illegally.’…
Laws requiring voters to present identification at their polling places in order to cast ballots have proven controversial, with Republicans arguing that such legislation prevents voter fraud. Democrats, who mostly oppose such laws, have argued they disenfranchise minority voters, who are generally less likely to possess the type of identification the laws require.
Trump’s Thursday morning posts echoed the statement he issued Wednesday to mark the closure of his voter fraud commission, which he said was unable to be effective because leaders in Democrat-controlled states were unwilling to participate. The president said Wednesday that he has instead asked the Department of Homeland Security to examine the issue.
The president’s claim that voter fraud occurs on a massive scale dates back to before the 2016 election, when he regularly predicted that the election would be rigged and refused to declare that he would accept the voting results, whatever they might be…
Despite the president’s assertion, there is no evidence of voter fraud on anywhere close to the type of scale he has alleged.”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump continues to push, without evidence, that ‘many people are voting illegally’,” Politico, Jan. 4, 2018 07:17am