Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
Federal commission Trump created in 2017 to study voting Integrity; disbanded January 2018.
Trump's 2017 voter-fraud Commission, disbanded after eight months, is the precedent for federal demands for state voter data; on 30 September 2026 a judge threw out the Justice Department's suit for Georgia's unredacted voter list.
Last refreshed: 1 October 2026
What happened to Trump's 2017 election integrity commission?
Timeline for Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
Mentioned in: Judge dismisses DOJ's Georgia voter suit
US Midterms 2026Mentioned in: Watchdog sues DHS over Mullin's 250,000
US Midterms 2026Background
President Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity by Executive Order 13799 on 11 May 2017, with the vice-president as chair, to study registration and voting in federal elections. Executive Order 13820 terminated it on 3 January 2018, after about eight months.
One of its own members, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, sued for its working papers. In August 2018 he said the records contained no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
the Commission's two themes, federal collection of state voter files and claims of fraud that rest on unreleased data, run through the 2026 cycle. The Justice Department's suit for Georgia's full voter list failed on 30 September. The same day American Oversight went to court to force DHS to release what underpins Markwayne Mullin's July figure of 250,000 non-citizen registrants, much as Dunlap had sued for the Commission's files.