That way, he insisted, anyone who wanted to test True the Vote’s conclusions could run the numbers themselves. Phillips said the group’s plan is to hold all of its findings close its chest and then make everything public in one fell swoop. He maintained, however, that the audit wasn’t dead. Reached by phone, Phillips declined to comment on how much money True the Vote collected during its fundraising campaign, how far short of its fundraising goals the organization fell and what the money was spent on. “We knew that this was a project that would take millions, and the major funding commitments haven’t materialized,” Engelbrecht said in a YouTube video announcing the shift.Įngelbrecht didn’t respond to phone calls and emails over the past week from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting seeking an explanation. Six months later, with considerably less fanfare, Engelbrecht abandoned the audit in favor of what she called “targeted investigations.” During the interview, Phillips said he had evidence millions of people had voted illegally but couldn’t release specifics until he spent a few more months preparing a public report. Trump had seen Gregg Phillips, a True the Vote board member, doing a combative interview on CNN immediately before tweeting his support for True the Vote’s efforts to root out voter fraud. The integrity of our election is too important,” she wrote. “Our audit team will include world-class technologists, researchers, data miners, statisticians, scholars, analysts, and subject matter experts. Founder Catherine Engelbrecht said it would cost at least $1 million. The nonprofit, True the Vote, immediately fired off an email following Trump’s tweet soliciting donations to pay for a national forensic audit of the 2016 election and, specifically, more than 300 sanctuary cities. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity began its work in earnest today with its first public hearing, but the effort took hold in January after a Trump tweet amplified the claims of a Houston nonprofit that claimed 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. The nonprofit group that inspired President Donald Trump’s quest to prove widespread voter fraud won’t answer basic questions about the canceled audit that was supposed to verify its claims. In the above picture I'm not really in jail, just visiting.Group behind Trump’s voter fraud claims still won’t show its work - Reveal Close AARON SANKIN DAILY DOT SEMAPHOR HOW TOIf asked, I can recite the entire alphabet from memory and consider myself a wealth of knowledge about how to run an independent record label into the ground. I give fucks about Oxford commas with some regularity. I know over 1,250 words in English, two in Turkish, and probably a dozen in Spanish. My work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Time, Consumer Reports, The Associated Press, The Onion, San Francisco Magazine, The Motley Fool, Mashable, Business Insider, SF Appeal, The Austin Chronicle, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Theatre Bay Area. I tracked the dumbest internet Nazis to the worst places in the history of online for the Center for Investigative Reporting. I led the Twitter bots and Air Bud beat as a senior staff writer for the Daily Dot. I was a founding editor of the Huffington Post's San Francisco bureau. Trust me on this one, these lads are absolute units. I cover technology policy, the thicc data ecosystem, and the ongoing tribulations of the world's largest adult sons. I am a reporter with The Markup living in New York.
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