President Trump’s commission on voter fraud and suppression likely will hold its first meeting next month after a “painstakingly” slow vetting of its members, one of the panel’s co-chairmen said Tuesday. Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach said he expects the commission to meet in Washington sometime in the second half of July to begin its work. Some commission members have complained of not having heard anything about a timetable since being appointed weeks ago. “The wheels have been turning for several months now. It’s just the process of getting members through the clearance hurdles is painstakingly long,” Mr. Kobach told The Washington Times. “We have almost all of our commissioners through the approval process, but we still have a few more remaining.”
Mr. Trump created the Election Integrity Commission in May after claiming that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received millions of illegal votes from noncitizens to help her to win the popular vote, while she lost to Mr. Trump in the Electoral College, which actually determines the presidency.
The bipartisan commission, which will have 12 to 15 members, is co-chaired by Vice President Mike Pence. The panel includes state elections officials such as Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, former Arkansas state Rep. David Dunn, Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, and Maryland Deputy Secretary of State Luis Borunda.
Mr. Kobach said commission staff who are employees in the executive office of the president have been gathering election data and preparing for the first meeting while the background checks of commission members continue.
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