Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity

Executive Order 13799
Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
Seal of the President of the United States

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, displays his signed Executive Order for the Establishment of a Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Executive Order 13799 in the Federal Register
Type Executive order
Executive Order number 13799
Signed by Donald Trump on May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11)
Federal Register details
Federal Register document number 2017-10003
Publication date May 16, 2017 (2017-05-16)
Summary
  • Identify rules and laws that enhance and undermine the integrity of the election process
  • Vice President chairs the Commission
  • Up to fifteen additional members
  • Other provisions

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PEIC), also called the Voter Fraud Commission, is a temporary commission established in May 2017 by United States President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13799 (E.O. 13799, 82 FR 22389) on May 11, 2017.[1][2] The Trump administration has said the commission would review claims of voter fraud, improper registration, and voter suppression.[3] The establishment of the commission followed through on previous unsubstantiated claims by Trump that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 United States presidential election.[4] Vice President Mike Pence serves as Chair of the Commission, with Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, serving as Vice Chair.

On June 28, 2017, Kris Kobach, acting as vice chair of the Commission, wrote a letter along with the Department of Justice requesting personal voter information from every state.[5] The request was met with significant bipartisan backlash.[6][7]

Trump's creation of the commission has been criticized by voting rights advocates, scholars and experts, and newspaper editorial boards as a pretext for, and prelude to, voter suppression.[8][9][10][11][12]

Background

2016 campaign

During his campaign for President Donald Trump made numerous claims of voter fraud occurring in the United States.

In the weeks before the election, Trump urged his supporters to volunteer as poll watchers on Election Day, saying they were needed to guard against "voter fraud" and a "rigged" outcome. The rhetoric was seen as a call to intimidate minority voters or challenge their credentials to prevent them from voting.[13][14] Numerous organizations, including the Democratic Party officials and affiliates sued Trump accusing him of voter intimidation, in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.[15]

Post-election

On November 8, 2016 Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election, but lost the popular vote to opponent Hillary Clinton.[16] Trump is the fifth person in U.S. history to become president while losing the nationwide popular vote. On November 28, 2016 Trump stated in a tweet, "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."[17] Trump has repeatedly stated and inferred that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election.[18]

On January 25, 2017 President Trump tweeted a statement,"I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and....even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!"[19][20]

Kris Kobach proposal

On November 22, 2016 Kobach met with then President-elect Trump in his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey in consideration for Secretary of Homeland Security position. The Associated Press photographed Kobach taking into his meeting with Trump a document entitled "Department of Homeland Security, Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days" referencing a possible amendment to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.[21][22]

The American Civil Liberties Union, representing plaintiffs in a voting rights case, asked the presiding federal judge to prevent Kobach from withholding from the public documents he presented to Trump by virtue of marking them "confidential." The plaintiffs demanded the public release of those documents they have received, that had been prepared with state funds, claiming Kobach "made statements to the public, the Court, and the President, suggesting that noncitizen registration fraud is a serious, widespread problem," at the same time he tried to hide those same documents that reject his claim, to prevent having to testify in open court about those materials.[23] In June 2017, the federal magistrate judge found that Kobach had made "patently misleading representations" to the court in the course of the document dispute. Kobach was fined $1,000 for "deceptive conduct and lack of candor" and ordered to submit to questioning by the ACLU about the documents.[24]

Voter irregularities in the United States

Only US citizens have the right to vote in federal elections.[25] While the United States Congress has jurisdiction over laws applying to federal elections, it has deferred the making of most aspects of election laws to the states. Therefore the administration of voter registration requirements, voting requirements, and elections vary widely across jurisdictions.

Voter impersonation (also sometimes called in-person voter fraud)[26] is a form of electoral fraud in which one person who is not eligible to vote in an election does so by voting under the name of another eligible voter or by otherwise pretending to be eligible.[26] In the United States, voter ID laws have been enacted in a number of states since 2010 with the aim of preventing voter impersonation.[27] Research and evidence show that voter impersonation is extremely rare. There is no evidence that in-person voter fraud has changed the result of any election.[28]

In a few cases, permanent residents ("green card" holders) have registered to vote and have cast ballots without realizing that doing so was illegal. Non-citizens convicted in criminal court of having made a false claim of citizenship for the purpose of registering to vote in a federal election can be fined and imprisoned for up to a year. Deportation and removal proceedings have resulted from several such cases.[29]

In an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law looked at 42 jurisdictions, focusing on one's with large population of noncitizens. Of 23.5 million votes surveyed, election officials referred an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting for further investigation, or about 0.0001% of votes cast. Douglas Keith, the counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and co-author of the analysis, said, “President Trump has said repeatedly that millions of people voted illegally in 2016, but our interviews with local election administrators made clear that rampant noncitizen voting simply did not occur. Any claims to the contrary make their job harder and distract from progress toward needed improvements like automatic voter registration.”[30]

Voter registration irregularities in the United States

Voter registration is the process of collecting applications to vote, adjudicating those applications, and maintaining the rolls of qualified voters. The process of voter registration is generally left to the states. In an effort to increase voter turnout, a state may adopt less restrictive policies, including motor voter registration and same day registration. In an effort to decrease in-person voter fraud, a state may adopt more strict policies for registration, including proof of citizenship at the time of registration. Federal elections do not require proof of citizenship, only a statement on the signed application.[31]

Extra entries

Voter rolls have high rates of inaccuracy. Voters move, die, and are incarcerated. Voter rolls may include erroneous superfluous entries as a result of fraudulent registration or failure to purge the roll when a voter dies, moves, or is sent to prison. A qualified voter may be legally registered in only one precinct. This is a matter of state law. In 2012, the Pew Trust estimated that 24 million voter records were inaccurate or invalid, including approximately 1.8 million records of deceased people who remained on voter rolls.[32] In October 2016, Trump conflated these irregularities with voter fraud and and wrongly cited the Pew report as evidence that 1.8 million people were fraudulently voting against him.[33] Voting twice is a third degree felony in most states.[34] Erroneous superfluous entries on a voter roll cannot affect an election if nobody fraudulently votes using the superfluous registration entry.[n 1]

Purged rolls

Erroneous deletions from a voter roll can potentially affect an election outcome by preventing qualified voters from casting ballots. In November 2016, the New York City Board of Elections was ordered by a federal judge to make affidavit ballots available to people who believed their registrations were improperly purged.[35] A computer analysis by The Palm Beach Post found that at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly purged from the Florida Central Voter File before the 2000 US presidential election, causing some eligible voters to be turned away at polling stations.[36] Some commentators and courts have concluded that improperly conducted purges affect political parties differently and disenfranchise racial minorities.[37] For instance, the 2000 Florida purge led to thousands of voters being wrongly disenfranchised, a disproportionate number of them black.[38]

Commission

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is a temporary commission established by President Donald Trump's executive order (E.O. 13799, 82 FR 22389) on May 11, 2017.[1] Fulfilling Trump's campaign and post-election promises of investigating fraudulent and improper voting registration and voting. White House spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the commission will provide the president with a report on their findings by 2018.[39] The Office of Management and Budget said the executive order would have a de minimis impact on the costs and revenues of the federal government.[40]

Provisions[1]:

Members

Vice President Pence has been described as the titular head of the Commission on Voter Integrity with Kris Kobach, who also serves on the elections committee of the National Secretaries of States Association (NSOS), as its operational leader. According to the executive order, the commission can have up to sixteen members.[1]

Matthew Dunlap and Bill Gardner, the two Democratic Secretaries of State on the commission, said they hoped the commission would look into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but Kobach said he does not think that the commission's investigation will go in that direction.[41][42]

Unlike past presidential commissions on elections and voting (such as the Carter-Baker in 2001, Carter-Ford in 2004, and Bauer-Ginsburg in 2013), the leadership of the panel is not bipartisan[9] and the makeup of the panel is not evenly split.[10] Rather, Pence and Kobach, the chair and vice chair of the commission, are both Republicans,[9][10] and Republicans hold a 7 to 5 advantage in membership for the commission as a whole.[43]

Current Commission members[44]
Former Commission members

Commission activity

2017 request for voter information

First request

On June 28, 2017, Kris Kobach, in his capacity as vice chair of the Commission, wrote a letter along with the Department of Justice to the top election official in every state requesting they turn over voter data ostensibly to aid a countrywide search for evidence of election irregularities. Besides information such as the names and party affiliations of all registered voters, Kobach sought birth dates, felony conviction records, voting histories for the past decade and the last four digits of all voters’ Social Security numbers. Many states' election officials claim they never received the request and some said they only forward the request from another state's secretary of state.

The letter was not made public, and it became publicly known only after Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, tweeted out an image of the letter the day after the letter was written. Along with the image of the letter, she wrote "Pence and Kobach are laying the groundwork for voter suppression, plain & simple."[46] A few hours after Gupta's tweet, Kobach confirmed to The Kansas City Star that the letter was authentic.[5]

Kobach provided an e-mail address and a website for the election official to electronically submit the personal voter data. The e-mail address lacked basic encryption technology and was found to be insecure.[47]

The request may have violated the federal Paperwork Reduction Act because it was not submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) prior to being made to the states. The submission to the OIRA would have required a justification and an explanation of how the data would be used and protected. Additionally, the request did not come with an estimate of how many hours it would take the states to respond. Regulatory experts opined that the consequence of a violation would be that states would not be required to respond.[48]

Second request

On July 25, Kobach told the Kansas City Star that he intends to send another request for voter data, after receiving a favorable ruling in a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[49] The letter was sent the following day, and it differed from the first request by the addition "if state law allows [the] information to be public". The California Secretary of State announced that it will refuse to comply with the second request. [50]

State responses

There was an immediate bipartisan backlash and rejection of the inquiries with a majority of states quickly rejecting the requests.[6][7][8][51] Notably, commissioners Kobach, Dunlap, and Lawson (who also serve as the secretaries of state for Kansas, Maine, and Indiana respectively, with Indiana being Mike Pence's home state) indicated that their state laws forbade them from complying.[52][53] Some states offered to only provide information that is already made public or available for purchase.[7] No state has said they will fully comply with the list of demands.[54] In response, President Trump made a statement on Twitter, "Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?"[55]

Impact on voter registration

In Colorado, the Secretary of State confirmed that 3,394 voters (0.09 percent of all registered voters in Colorado) cancelled their voter registration in response to the request for voter registration information sent out by Kris Kobach.[113] After receiving a few requests for voter registration cancellations, election officials in Flagler County, Florida published an open letter to voters urging voters not to cancel their registration in response to the commission's request for voter information.[114] In Arkansas, an alderwoman in Eureka Springs requested to cancel her voter registration, but then re-registered within 24 hours because the law requires her to be a registered voter in order to serve in an elected office.[115]

First official meeting, 19 July 2017

The committee held its first official meeting on 19 July, 2017 in a secure federal building in Washington D.C. Breaking with tradition of open meetings for such commissions, the meeting was not open to the public, but it was live streamed in lieu. President Donald Trump addressed the commission at its inaugural meeting, stating that the commission's work should "fairly and objectively follow the facts wherever they may lead". He then blasted states that did not want to comply with the request for data issued by Kris Kobach, saying "One has to wonder what they’re worried about".[116] The committee members talked largely of voter fraud, and mentioned additional voting equipment.[117]

Response

Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine, an expert on election law, stated that the commission was "a pretext to pass legislation that will make it harder for people to register to vote" and that there could be no confidence in whatever the committee produced.[11] Representative Marc Veasey of Texas' 33rd congressional district introduced H.R. 3029 with the short title as Combating the President’s Voter Suppression Commission Act on June 22, 2017.[118]

Lawsuits

A total of seven lawsuits have been filed against the commission.[116] Five of the plaintiffs in the different lawsuits are non-profit organizations that include: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU v. Trump and Pence), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP (NAACP v. Trump), Public Citizen, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The lawsuits by the first two groups involve the lack of transparency of the commission’s meetings, whereas the lawsuits by the last two groups involve the collection by the commission of personal private data.[119] In addition to the lawsuits, complaints have been filed with federal agencies against two of the commission's members.[116]

In response to the lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the commission abandoned plans to accept responses through the Department of Defense safe access file exchange website and announced plans to use an existing White House system.[120] The commission asked states to refrain from submitting data while the case was pending.[121] The commission also stated its intention of deleting voter information from Arkansas, the only state to officially submit voter data on the Department of Defense website.[122] On July 24, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied EPIC's request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the commission, ruling that the commission was not required to conduct a privacy review before gathering data.[123]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Erroneously voting using the superfluous entry instead of ones true registration entry does not impact the outcome of an election. Example 1: A person uses the mail in ballot of his deceased wife rather than his own to cast a vote. Example 2: A person owns two homes, is registered to vote in both homes, but only votes once. This is not uncommon. (For reference, see "Why Are So Many People Registered to Vote in Multiple States?". Pacific Standard. January 27, 2017.)

References

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  6. 1 2 Liz Stark; Grace Hauck (July 5, 2017). "Forty-four states and DC have refused to give certain voter information to Trump commission". CNN. Retrieved July 11, 2017. at worst [the Presidential Advisory Commission] is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.
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  8. 1 2 "Trump's voter-fraud commission itself is a fraud". The Washington Post. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017, "...In fact, the real fraud is the commission itself...."
  9. 1 2 3 Miles Rapoport on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (May 30, 2017): "President Trump’s decision to establish a panel to study voter fraud and suppression, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, has been roundly criticized by voter rights advocates and Democrats." ... [Miles Rapoport, Senior Democracy Practice Fellow Ash Center]: "There are a number of really serious problems with the Commission as it has been announced and conceptualized, which have led many people to say that its conclusions are pre-determined and that it will be used as an excuse for new efforts to restrict access to voting."
  10. 1 2 3 Michael Waldman, Donald Trump Tells His Voter Fraud Panel: Find Me 'Something', Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law (July 20, 2017) (also republished at The Daily Beast): "The panel was created to justify one of the more outlandish presidential fibs ... After Trump was roundly mocked for his claim of 3 to 5 million illegal voters, the panel was launched in an effort to try to rustle up some evidence—any evidence—for the charge.... The purpose of the panel is not just to try to justify his laughable claims of millions of invisible illegal voters. It aims to stir fears, to lay the ground for new efforts to restrict voting. Trump’s claims, after all, are just a cartoon version of the groundless arguments already used to justify restrictive voting laws."
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