President Trump’s decommissioned panel on election integrity found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, a former panel member wrote in a letter Friday.
“I have reviewed the Commission documents made available to me and they do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud,” Maine’s Democratic secretary of state, Matthew Dunlap, wrote to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Pence and Kobach, both Republicans, led the commission before it was shut down amid numerous legal challenges.
Trump created the commission months after taking office, claiming without evidence that “millions” of people voted illegally for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Dunlap sued the commission in late 2017 in federal court, arguing that members of the panel had refused to share documents with him. A judge ordered the commission to hand over the information, and a month later, Trump shut down the commission.
Dunlap said in his letter that he joined the commission “in good faith and with optimism that its members would conduct their inquiry without bias or preordained conclusions.”
“Unfortunately, my experience on the Commission quickly caused me concern that its purpose was no to pursue the truth but rather to provide an official imprimatur of legitimacy on President Trump’s assertions that millions of illegal votes were cast during the 2016 election and to pave the way for policy changes designed to undermine the right to vote,” he wrote.
