Trump's voter fraud commission has contentious meeting in New Hampshire

Kris Kobach.
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The second public meeting of President Trump's voter fraud commission, held Tuesday in New Hampshire, included protesters who called the commission a "sham" and a few rebukes of vice chairman and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who claimed in a Breitbart News column last week it was "highly likely" that voters in New Hampshire with out-of-state driver's licenses gave Democrat Maggie Hassan her recent Senate win.

Kobach's unsubstantiated claim was refuted by other members of the commission, including New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D), who said that Kobach's column questioned "whether our elections that we have recorded is real and valid. And it is real and valid." Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap (D) described the column, which argued that Hassan's race was "stolen through voter fraud," as "reckless," adding that there is "no connection between motor vehicle law and election law. That would be almost as absurd as saying if you have cash in your pocket that you robbed a bank."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.