(UTV|COLOMBO) – US President Donald Trump has scrapped the voter fraud commission he set up in May to investigate his own allegations of illegal voting.
A White House statement said many US states had refused to cooperate with the commission.
Mr Trump has said fraud had cost him the popular vote in the 2016 election.
His rival Hillary Clinton won three million more votes overall than Mr Trump in results that were certified by the Federal Election Commission.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Trump had decided to dissolve the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity “rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense”.
Democrats had alleged the voter fraud commission is a ploy to suppress left-leaning voters.
Courtesy: BBC
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