Important Election Integrity Info from 2018
(Jan 3, 2018)
Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud - Transfers work to DHS
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“Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,” he said.
But Mr. Kobach insisted in an interview that the commission’s work would not end but rather would be transferred to the Department of Homeland Security, one of the federal agencies charged with ensuring election integrity and one that he said critics would find more difficult to target.
A spokesman for homeland security, Tyler Q. Houlton, said on Wednesday that “the department continues to focus our efforts on securing elections against those who seek to undermine the election system or its integrity.”
January 2018
Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html
August 2018
DHS chief calls on officials in all 50 states to have 'verifiable' ballots by 2020 election
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/403148-dhs-chief-calls-on-election-officials-in-all-50-
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DHS Hosts National Exercise on Election Security
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/08/15/dhs-hosts-national-exercise-election-security