California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said after the first meeting of President Trump’s advisory commission on election integrity that participants were focusing on “debunked conspiracy theories” to make it harder for Americans to vote.
“Today’s first meeting of Trump’s fraud election commission confirmed what we already knew—it was created to make it harder for eligible citizens to register and vote and to indulge the President’s outrageous lie that millions voted illegally in last year’s election,” Padilla said in a statement Wednesday.
“In a meeting that was closed to the public, Kris Kobach, and a commission made up of figures with long histories championing voter suppression policies, once again repeated debunked conspiracy theories about massive voter fraud,” he added.
The commission has already sparked an outcry by asking for complete voter roles from each state, with most refusing the request.
California is among the states that have refused, but even the secretary of state of Republican Mississippi advised the commission “they can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Padilla said he is concerned that “our sacred right to vote as citizens is under attack.”
