<p>In May, President Trump announced the creation of a bipartisan commission tasked with determining the level of voter fraud in the 2016 election. ;</p>
<p>Democratic officials in more than 20 states are already pushing back by refusing to provide the voter data the commission needs to conduct the investigation. ;</p>
<p>Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach, who leads the commission alongside Vice President Mike Pence, says the group will be looking into &ldquo;all of the voting irregularities that affect the integrity of our election.&rdquo; Last week, he sent a letter to all 50 states asking for &ldquo;publicly available voter roll data.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is among those who have refused to give voter information to the commission. &ldquo;I have no intention of honoring this request,&rdquo; he said, slamming the commission as a &ldquo;tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;We will not let Donald Trump and right-wing extremists use this as some sort of covert plan to get data to make it harder for people to vote,&rdquo; ;he said. ;</p>
<p>California Sec. of State Alex Padilla is refusing to cooperate, vowing &ldquo;not to provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Kentucky Sec. of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has slammed the commission as a &ldquo;waste of taxpayer money&rdquo; and says she will not be providing any voter information. ;</p>
<p>Even some states that voted for Trump, like Texas, are refusing to comply ;with the commission&#8217;s request for data. ;</p>
<p>Kobach has defended his request by explaining the &ldquo;purpose of the commission is to quantify different forms of voter fraud and registration fraud and offer solutions&hellip;you have to have this data in order to do any meaningful research.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Trump has repeatedly claimed that voter fraud is the reason he didn&rsquo;t win the popular vote, and hopes the investigation will support his claims. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million, and the Dems argue that voter fraud cannot exist on such a massive scale.</p>
<p>But with more than 11 million illegals currently living in the US, just a small fraction of that population could make a huge difference.</p>
<p>As we wrote in a previous article, a recent study by Just Facts ;estimates that between 1.5 and 2.1 million illegals voted in the 2016 election. The Dems aren&rsquo;t complaining about this, because they know illegal voters are more likely to vote Left. ;</p>
<p>There really are no advantages here for the Dems if it is proven that a significant number of illegals voted in the 2016 presidential election &#8211; but there are two major downsides:</p>
<p>1) It would validate Trump&rsquo;s push for voter ID laws and his claim that substantial amounts of illegals voted for Hillary.</p>
<p>2) It could prove that Russia&rsquo;s alleged &ldquo;hacking&rdquo; had no impact on the elections. This would further embarrass the Democrats. ;</p>
<p>On top of that, it just looks bad for the Democrats to resist the investigation without a valid reason. ;</p>
<p>As Kobach points out, the &ldquo;integrity and the fairness of our elections&rdquo; is &ldquo;at the very foundation of our republic.&rdquo; Without fair elections, how can we have &ldquo;confidence in our system&rdquo; or a &ldquo;loyal opposition?&rdquo;</p>
<p>The answer to that question is that we can&rsquo;t. ;</p>