Donald Trump Launches Investigation Into Voter Fraud, Says It Cost Him Popular Vote

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.According to The New York Times, Trump is poised to appoint Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach to lead a commission tasked with investigating improper or fraudulent voter registrations and voter suppression in national elections.In signing an executive order to officially appoint the commission, Trump followed through on a promise he made in January to ask for an investigation into voter fraud in the November 2016 election, a claim Democrats have blasted and many secretaries of state have refuted. PolitiFact has also called those claims false.Pssst!!..Are you in Kenya and there is a product you want to buy from USA? Get Amazing Deals!!Follow this linkDemocrats and voting rights groups called the panel a sham, arguing there are few, if any, credible allegations of significant voter fraud. They warned that the panel would be used to lay the groundwork for stricter voting requirements that could make it more difficult for poor and minority voters to access the ballot box.“The sole purpose of this commission is to propagate a myth and to give encouragement to Republican governors and state legislators to increase voter suppression,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who challenged Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination."It's simply an effort to try and find proof of the president's absurd claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally in November,"  Brennan Center for Justice President Michael Walden, said in a statement.The commission will include two Republicans, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, and two Democrats, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap.