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Why is a presidential advisory panel on elections operating in such secrecy?

On Nov. 9, I filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, seeking to obtain the working documents, correspondence and schedule of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. What’s remarkable about my lawsuit is that I’m a member of the commission, and apparently this is the only way I can find out what we’re doing.
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The commission was established by executive order under the auspices of the Federal Advisory Commission Act (FACA), which requires notice of our public meetings, disclosure of our work product and the opportunity for public participation. FACA was written precisely so Americans would know what the government is doing and what it is considering, so we could participate in that process.

One of the agencies that some commissioners have been reportedly working with is the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the implementation of the Real ID Act and has designated state election systems as “critical infrastructure.” DHS may decide to enter the field of elections management, under the ubiquitous mantle of “national security.”

Without transparency about the commission’s actions, how can you find out if a policy is being developed that may require you to have a Real ID-compliant driver’s license to vote? Or whether you’ll have to prove American citizenship at the polls? How will you know about proposed changes to voter registration deadlines or new restrictions on absentee balloting?

Of course, this is politics. But remember, we as American citizens are supposed to own the process. The desire to prevail in an election campaign has led to some sad episodes of voter intimidation and suppression in our country’s history. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity should endeavor to challenge those fears and answer them, not add to them.

I’m a neoliberal and I don’t think that tax bill is neoliberal.

I’d say neoliberalism is essentially the extension of market dominance to all spheres of social life, fostered and enforced by the state. In economic policy, this means deregulation and privatization. In culture, it means untrammeled marketing and the commoditization of everyday life, including the intimate sphere. In law, it means consumer sovereignty, non-discrimination (which is after all economically irrational), and a restrictive conception of the public interest. In education, it means the replacement of public by private (i.e., business) support for schools, universities, and research, with a concomitant shift of influence over curriculum and research topics. In civil society, it means private control over the media and private funding of political parties, with the resultant control of both by business. In international relations, it means investor rights agreements masquerading as “free trade” and constraining the rights of governments to protect their own workers, environments, and currencies.

My God, it is getting so depressing. Every time I read the news or come here on this forum, I just read something worse than the day before. This administration is literally destroying our democracy and no one is doing anything at all about it. I hate republicans in congress for enabling Trump, they have it in their power to do something about him, but won't because they want to profit by him. It is sickening.

I’m surprised you don’t admit how many things I’ve been proven right about.

Not everybody can point to actual emails that prove them right. The Podesta file dump proved me right about Bernie being cheated by the DNC, as I so emphatically pointed out.

Media collusion with the DNC is a matter of public record.

I cited a coming sea change is politics — I don’t think anyone will argue that.

Hillary was hated. You said there was no way she’d lose the election.

I feel like my bead on American politics definitely dominates yours—from the day you said there was no way in hell a black man could be elected president, and I said you were wrong.

People are finally talking about Bill Clinton’s rapes. I was right about that.

I’ve been proven right about a lot.

I could go on... 😇

I reviewed posts during the run up to the election and noticed you said there was no way Hillary would lose.

Collusion was proven.

Yes, Hillary Clinton is guilty of treason, but it hasn’t been publicly acknowledged yet.

Russian interference into the 2016 has not been proven.

Yes, Trump is no worse than Hillary would’ve been, although the Hillary-favored media would be covering up for Clinton and the Democrats—something we are assured they’d never do for Trump.

If "most thinking souls" really were "content" with this "hiccup", he would be popular. He is not.