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Trump’s voter-fraud claims are the real fraud

In the Kafkaesque world of President Donald Trump, unsubstantiated widespread voter fraud accounts for the fact that he lost the 2016 presidential popular vote while substantiated Russian election campaign meddling, which may have facilitated his victory in the electoral count, is nothing but a “hoax.” Though it’s taken an intensive FBI probe, hearings by two […]

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Matt Dunlap accuses White House of falsely implying widespread voter fraud

Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on Friday accused the White House and leaders of a presidential commission of making false statements about potential voter fraud and of “troubling bias” as they led the now-disbanded election commission. In a scathing letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Dunlap said […]

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Trump administration to destroy voter data

In an apparent effort to avoid turning documents over to Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, the Trump administration has told a federal judge it will destroy the voter registration data that some states forwarded to the president’s voter fraud commission. The White House director for information technology, Charles C. Herndon, revealed the administration’s new […]

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Matt Dunlap asks court to secure documents of Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has again turned to the courts in his effort to obtain working documents of the federal voter fraud commission on which he served. President Trump dissolved his voter fraud commission on Jan. 3, citing lawsuits against the body and states’ resistance to its requests for detailed voter registration data. The decision […]

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LePage plans push for voter ID again

AUGUSTA — Though there is no evidence of voter fraud in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage said Friday that he plans to ask the Legislature to require voters to show an identification card “as a simple way to safeguard the most sacred right we have in our democracy.” “We must discourage voter fraud, and we must […]

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Matt Dunlap disappointed Trump pulled plug on 'voter fraud' commission

AUGUSTA — For Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, participation in a federal voter-fraud commission proved “a strange, surreal and remarkable journey.” With President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the plug on his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Dunlap’s formal role is over. But, he warned, the issue is not going away. Dunlap said […]

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I’m on Trump’s voter fraud commission; I’m suing it to find out what it’s doing

On Nov. 9, I filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, seeking to obtain the working documents, correspondence and schedule of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. What’s remarkable about my lawsuit is that I’m a member of the commission, and apparently this is the only way I can find out what […]

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Matthew Dunlap goes to court to force Trump voter fraud panel to keep him informed

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is upping the ante in his effort to compel President Trump’s voter fraud commission to provide him with information and correspondence about its work. Dunlap, one of four Democrats on the 11-member Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, has asked a federal judge to issue an injunction forcing the […]

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Matt Dunlap decries ‘vacuum of information’ from Trump voter fraud commission

The Maine member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission has written a pointed letter to its executive director, demanding he be given documents and kept informed about the group’s activities and charging that there is “a vacuum of information.” Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of four Democrats on the 12-person commission, sent the letter […]