Voter Fraud Commission Disbanded After Finding Zero Evidence
After claiming 3-5 million illegal votes, Trump created a voter fraud commission. Most states refused to cooperate. It found zero evidence of widespread fraud — internal report sections on fraud were "glaringly empty." It was quietly disbanded.
After falsely claiming that 3 to 5 million illegal votes cost him the popular vote in 2016, Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in May 2017, led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
The commission was a debacle from the start:
- Most states refused to turn over voter data
- Multiple lawsuits challenged its legitimacy
- Internal dysfunction plagued its operations
- Trump disbanded it on January 3, 2018, blaming state non-cooperation
Commission member Matthew Dunlap, Maine's Secretary of State, later revealed that internal documents showed "sections on evidence of voter fraud are glaringly empty." A Brennan Center study found only 30 instances of noncitizen voting out of 23.5 million votes examined — a rate of 0.00013%.
The commission existed to retroactively justify a lie and to lay groundwork for voter suppression. When it couldn't find evidence to support its predetermined conclusion, it was quietly dissolved. The "Big Lie" about stolen elections that Trump would weaponize in 2020 was already being built.