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On May 11, 2017, Trump signed an executive order to establish a commission to conduct an investigation into voter fraud, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as vice chair. [303] Kobach and the commission failed to provide evidence for claims of voter fraud by Trump and others on the commission. [304]
[58] Texas senator John Cornyn and Iowa senator Chuck Grassley were among the Republicans who said that they had not yet seen any evidence of widespread voting fraud that could change the election, while saying the President had the right to legally investigate allegations of fraud. Close Trump ally Graham also referred to minor incidents that ...
A portion of a controversial law championed by Texas Republicans as a supposed voter fraud deterrent was overly vague. Texas AG’s Voter Fraud Probes Are 'Unconstitutional' And Must Stop, Judge Rules
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
Texas argued it had standing to sue to prevent its votes from becoming "diluted". [29] Texas instead alleged that "fraud becomes undetectable" because "unlawful actions of election officials effectively destroy the evidence". Whether "voters committed fraud" was not the "constitutional issue" in this case, according to Texas.
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On November 8, 2016, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election, but lost the popular vote to opponent Hillary Clinton by about 2.9 million votes. [4] [20] Trump falsely claimed that he won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" and that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election.
As a consortium of states with the goal of maintaining accurate voter rolls and detecting possible voter fraud, Texas joined ERIC in 2020.