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From: von Spakovsky, Hans [Hans.VonSpakovsky@heritage.org]
Sent: 8/31/2017 10:10:42 PM
To: Kossack, Andrew J. EOP/OVP [Andrew.J. Kossack@ovp.eop.gov]
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Spewing Outrage at Voter Fraud Commission, Judge and Media Miss Facts
Katrina Trinko / August 31, 2017
Once you know the facts, the latest narrative painting President Donald Trump's Election Integrity Advisory
Commission as a shady group refusing to make its documents public falls apart.
Let me backtrack.
Here is the key section from a Washington Post article published Aug. 30:
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Washington said the Election Integrity Commission released only
an agenda and proposed bylaws before its first meeting at the White House complex last month.
But once gathered, commissioners had thick binders that included documents the public had not seen, including
a specially prepared report and a 381-page 'database 'purporting to show 1,100 cases of voter fraud, both
from the think tank Heritage Foundation.
Ah, yes, those scary thick binders. (What is it with the left and binders? Maybe Mitt Romney could give me
some insight.)
Well, as exciting as it would be if there were a top-secret Heritage Foundation voter fraud database ... there
isn't one. You can peruse the entirepublic Heritage voter fraud database right here.
The existence of the 2-year-old database has hardly been a secret. In fact, we've run two Daily Signal articles
just this summer that mention it:Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem
and Voter Fraud Database Tops 1,000 Proven Cases.
If we were trying to keep it a secret, we'd be doing a lousy job of it.
So, far from being documents the public had not seen, these are documents The Heritage Foundation and The
Daily Signal-the multimedia news arm of the organization-have been pushing out to the public and
encouraging wide readership of
And no, the database isn't purporting to show, as the Post put it, over 1,000 cases of voter fraud. It's just,
well, showing around 1,100 cases of clear voter fraud.
As the introduction to the database puts it, The Heritage Foundation is providing a list of election fraud cases
from across the country, broken down by state, where individuals were either convicted of vote fraud, or where
a judge overturned the results of an election.
And that specially prepared report also cited?
My Heritage Foundation colleague Hans von Spakovsky, who is a member of the Election Integrity
Commission, thinks the Post might be referring to a report that was provided to members of the commission by
U.S. Election Assistance Commissioner Christy McCormick, not The Heritage Foundation.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.prescomm/sgogvtfsc0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)