A spokesman said President Donald Trump will sign an executive action to commission an investigation into widespread voter fraud, raising the prospect of a federal government probe into a widely debunked claim and sparking alarm among experts and Democrats. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Thursday broke with Trump, saying he sees no evidence of voter fraud in the 2016 election and says his committee won't investigate it. Chaffetz told reporters at the congressional Republican retreat in Philadelphia that voting happens at the local level, adding "I don't see any evidence" of widespread fraud. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have finalized their election results with no reports of the kind of widespread fraud that Trump alleges. Multiple academic studies, and federal judges, have cast doubt on the prevalence of voter fraud, though an argument that should be based on math has frequently divided along partisan lines.

Source: ABC News January 26, 2017 12:58 UTC