President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he created to investigate what he claimed was millions of fraudulent votes in the 2016 election. But Ohio鈥檚 chief elections officer wasn鈥檛 a fan of the Election Integrity Commission to begin with.
Secretary of State Jon Husted has said . But Husted said his office already does post-election investigations into claims of fraud and suppression, so in Ohio, a federal probe into fraud wasn鈥檛 necessary. 鈥淚f the president seems fine with that now, then all the better for all of us.鈥�
Was there any need for this Election Integrity Commission that is now shut down? 鈥淣ot in Ohio, but I can鈥檛 speak for the 49 other states.鈥�
A White House statement blames many states for refusing to provide information to the commission. Husted sent a to the White House, but did not turn over data that isn鈥檛 public record in Ohio.
