{"id":17097,"date":"2018-01-04T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17097"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:52:56","slug":"donald-trump-dissolves-election-fraud-panel-after-states-balk-at-data-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/donald-trump-dissolves-election-fraud-panel-after-states-balk-at-data-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump dissolves election fraud panel after states balk at data requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday shut down a presidential commission charged with looking into allegations of electoral fraud during the 2016 election, after many states refused to provide it with data, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,\u201d Trump said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, headed by Vice President Mike Pence, was established in May last year to look into voter fraud but met with resistance from many states.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Washington, DC, noted in November that the commission was an advisory body that lacked legal authority to compel states to hand over data.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, a Republican, has said that fraud may have accounted for his loss nationwide in the popular vote to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>Most state officials who oversee elections and election law experts say that voter fraud is rare in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday shut down a presidential commission charged with looking into allegations of electoral fraud during the 2016 election, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17099,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097\/revisions\/17099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}