“Contrary to what we were promised, these documents show that there was, in fact, a pre-ordained outcome to this commission to demonstrate widespread voter fraud, without any evidence to back it up,” Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said. | Darron Cummings/AP Photo Files contradict Trump claims of voter fraud, Maine official says

A review of nearly 2,000 documents from President Donald Trump’s now-defunct Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity contradicts claims of widespread voter fraud, Maine’s secretary of state said Friday.

Matt Dunlap, who was a part of the commission’s board, said the files showed no evidence to support such assertions.


“Contrary to what we were promised, these documents show that there was, in fact, a pre-ordained outcome to this commission to demonstrate widespread voter fraud, without any evidence to back it up,” he said in a statement.

The Maine secretary of state, a Democrat, also shared his findings with the former commission’s co-chairmen, Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

The commission was disbanded in January in part because states refused to provide “basic information relevant to” the group.

In November 2017, Dunlap filed a lawsuit claiming that he had been denied access to the commission’s records and effectively frozen out of its activities. A judge later ruled that he had the right to the same information shared to other members of the commission.

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The Trump administration handed over more than 8,000 pages of records to Dunlap on July 18 following a federal court order. Dunlap’s initial report is based on a review of 1,800 of those records.

The Maine secretary of state also said that the documents he reviewed showed that Kobach was going to ask states to submit voter files to the commission for analysis, and was also possibly going to request data from federal court clerks regarding individuals excused from jury service.

Dunlap is being represented by American Oversight, a legal watchdog group formed by former Obama administration attorneys.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.