President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing an “election integrity” commission to investigate voter fraud.

The commission will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceGOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick Pence seeks to boost Daines in critical Montana Senate race The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy MORE, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will serve as vice chair, the White House announced during Thursday's press briefing.

It will “study the registration and voting processes used in Federal elections” as well as “fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting," the order says.

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Lawmakers from both parties will be on the commission, which will be tasked with studying practices and policies "that undermine the American people's confidence in the integrity of the voting processes used in Federal elections," according to the text of the executive order.

The commission will be charged with reviewing Trump’s allegations that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Trump repeatedly made baseless claims that he only lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE because of millions of illegal votes. There has so far been no evidence to support his claims.

“You can never really find, you know, there are going to be — no matter what numbers we come up with there are going to be lots of people that did things that we're not going to find out about,” Trump said in January after taking office. "But we will find out because we need a better system where that can't happen.”

Kobach, who served as an aide in Trump’s transition, has previously claimed “in excess of a million” people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

“We do know that there’s a very large number, and it will be impossible to ever know what the exact number is of non-citizens voting," Kobach told Fox Business Network in January. "I think it probably was [millions]. … If you take the whole country, I think it is probably in excess of a million, if you take the entire country for sure."

Kobach cited no evidence supporting his claim but said it was just “a projection.”

- Updated at 2:32 p.m.