Voter ‘fraud’ panel stuck in fantasyland

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S voter fraud commission gets back to work on Tuesday with little to show so far except the embrace of a flimsy conspiracy theory and a series of lawsuits.

The much-mocked panel will be meeting in New Hampshire after deeming the tiny state a supposed center for voter fraud. Its evidence for that claim is thin, and Tuesday is unlikely to yield any answers, since the public will not be allowed to speak during the meeting.

To date, the panel’s only uncovered scandals have been its own.

Since June, the ACLU and other civil rights organizations have filed lawsuits accusing the commission of violating open government laws by holding meetings in private and letting its officials use personal email addresses.

After nearly three months, the commission’s only supposed scoop boils down to about 5,000 votes in New Hampshire.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who co-chairs the panel, wrote a paid Breitbart editorial last week laying out his argument for voter fraud hiding in the Granite State.

According to Kobach, the panel found New Hampshire had 6,540 same-day registrants on Election Day who used out-of-state driver’s licenses to prove their identity. But since then, only about 1,000 of them have obtained a New Hampshire license.

Therefore, Kobach concluded, there were 5,313 New Hampshire voters who cannot be proven as residents of the state. He says that this would have been enough to sway the Senate race — which Democratic candidate Maggie Hassan won by 1,017 votes — and possibly even the electoral vote, which Hillary Clinton nabbed by less than 3,000 votes.

But New Hampshire allows using out-of-state IDs for voter registration, and simply requires that registrants can prove any kind of residence in the state.