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Trump's election integrity commission needs to redress voter suppression, not fraud

Turner-Lee, Nicol
http://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/06/21/voter-suppression-and-election-integrity-commission/

Publisher:  Brookings
Date Written:  21/06/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Election Integrity Commission, an effort focused on improper voter registrations and voter fraud. The formation comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's stringent voter identification laws that were found to discriminate against African Americans.

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"Stolen elections" can be traced back to the presidential election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln's 180 electoral votes were called into question by egregious claims of political corruption, favoritism, changing convention rules, and other non-democratic activities.

The Reconstruction period later surfaced cases of voter fraud, despite the passage of the 15th Amendment, which prohibited the direct disenfranchisement of citizens based on race or former enslavement. Instances of ballot stuffing, discarded or miscounted party vote were part of a broad strategy by white Democrats (then the face of white supremacy) who sought to regain power in the South. Years later, these problems ultimately led to necessary reforms, including the introduction of voter registration and the use of secret ballots.

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