July 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which the president created to find voter fraud, is scheduled Wednesday to hold its first public meeting, which Vice President Mike Pence will attend.
Trump proposed the commission to investigate his allegation that up to 5 million people illegally voted in November -- a belief dismissed by the majority of U.S. experts and election officials.
The leaders of the commission, which will meet Wednesday at 11 a.m., are Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican.
Trump, through an executive order, on May 11 established the federal commission with the goal of targeting problems in voting systems across the United States. The commission's first action was to request all U.S. states to send in detailed voter registration records.
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The commission wanted registrants' full names, addresses, dates of birth, political parties, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, a list of the elections they voted in since 2006, information on any felony convictions, whether they were registered to vote in other states, their military status and if they lived overseas.
The majority of states did not comply with the commission's request.
Republicans and Democrats have batted around the issue of voter fraud in recent months. Since his victory, Trump has said multiple times that "millions" of undocumented immigrants voted in November's election.
Before the vote, Trump claimed the electoral system was "rigged" against him and suggested he might challenge the results if he lost.
The new commission will spend months investigating the voting system and ultimately submit a report to Trump.
Allen Cone and Doug G. Ware contributed to this report.
