Like everything else that Donald Trump does, says, or touches, his "Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" has already proven to be wildly unpopular. When Kris Kobach, the commission's vice chair, asked every state to turn over their voter rolls, the secretary of state of Mississippi—not exactly known as a bastion of anti-Trump sentiment—responded by kindly inviting Kobach to jump in the Gulf of Mexico. But Kobach hasn't let things like lawsuits, facts, denouncements from Republicans, or his own doubts that Trump won the election slow him down. And on Tuesday, the Commission will again convene to hear testimony on the state of American elections.

You can probably intuit that this hearing is going to be a lopsided shitshow where everyone involved already knows exactly what conclusions they'll reach. And indeed, there are a number of red flags that would back up your well-founded gut instinct. Kobach has only invited people who already agree that voter fraud is real and that voter suppression is not. As Ari Berman and Pema Levy write in Mother Jones, although the 12 witnesses are mostly Kobach's cronies, one law professor was asked to participate, as long as he promised to say that election laws don't impact voter turnout. (He wouldn't, so he's not).

It goes on like this. Hans von Spakovsky, a former top attorney for the Bush Department of Justice described by his own colleagues as the "point person for undermining the Civil Rights Division’s mandate to protect voting rights," is scheduled to testify. Also among the witnesses is John Lott, a former academic whose theory that more concealed weapons lead to less crime has been discredited, and who now purportedly wants to use that same logic to argue that strict voter ID laws encourage voter turnout. Not among the witnesses is a single member of any minority group—people who, historically, have actually had to worry most about election integrity. (No women, either.)

The week before the commission's scheduled meeting date, Kobach wrote an op-ed—in Breitbart, of course—where he tried to break the story that over 5000 people voted illegally in New Hampshire during the 2016 election. His evidence is that those 5000 New Hampshire voters had out-of-state drivers licenses, which means... nothing. It doesn't mean anything. New Hampshire doesn't require voters to have an in-state license, which is a really easy fact to discover—several thousand New Hampshire voters clearly worked it out—if you aren't desperate to use it as evidence for some harebrained theory you made up.

It's a drag to keep repeating a point like this, but this commission has earned it: In-person voter fraud is so rare that, statistically speaking, it doesn't exist. But of course, Kobach has two jobs to do here: first, to nurse Donald Trump's clinically delicate ego, and second, to make sure that as few people as possible who don't support the president actually make it to a voting booth.

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