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3.1 Trump Voter Fraud and Marijuana



1. Why did the Trump administration decide to end the Voter Fraud  Commission?
States resisted the commission's requests for extensive voter information. 
2. What claims had Trump made about voter fraud?
He claimed that there was substantial evidence for voter fraud and that millions of fraudulent votes had cost him the popular vote
3. What rate of voter fraud was found by a Loyola Law School study?
 A few hundred ballots at most over 15 years during which over 800 million votes were cast.
4. What rate of voter fraud did the North Carolina Board of Elections find?
(North Carolina has some of the strictest voter laws in the country)
only 0.00002 percent
5. What information does Trump base his claims on?
His claims are based on a misinterpretation of a 2012 Pew Center that addressed the technology used for voter registration that retained deceased and relocated voters on the rosters.
6. Why do Republicans continue to emphasize the danger of voter fraud?
It allows them to establish laws that make it harder for people to vote. Usually, these laws disenfranchise populations, like racial minorities young people, that tend to vote Democratic, so it helps give the Republican party an advantage.

(article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/30/15900478/trump-voter-fraud-suppression-commission)

7.  How has Attorney General Jeff Sessions changed federal marijuana law enforcement?
He revoked the Obama administration's guidelines for states to legalize marijuana with little federal interference. He allows federal judges to prosecute marijuana businesses.
8. How did the Obama administration treat this issue?
 They took a soft approach and allowed states to legalize marijuana after meeting some guidelines.
9. What did the "Cole memo" say?
It allowed for states to experiment with legalizing marijuana by saying that as long as states enforced guidelines, like preventing marijuana from leaving the state and preventing children from using it, the federal government would not intervene.
10. What impact could these changes have on states that have legalized marijuana?
It could create chaos as people lose jobs and the government loses tax revenues. Also, since law enforcement would be regulated by different federal judges, there is no clear standard.
11. How can Congress change the impact of this enforcement?
Congress could instead legalize marijuana federally and let states choose what policies they want within their borders. It could also pass legislation limiting federal regulation, as has already been done for medical marijuana.
12. Why might Sessions's actions provoke a backlash from Republicans?
His actions are opposite to what voters chose as legalization came from ballot initiatives. Furthermore, even a majority of Republicans favor legalization

(article:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/4/16849866/marijuana-legalization-trump-sessions-cole-memo)

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