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Vice President Mike Pence had an "organizational" phone call Wednesday with members of the election fraud panel that the White House commissioned last month.

With an executive order, President Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which is charged with investigating voter fraud and issuing recommendations to prevent it.

"The integrity of the vote is a foundation of our democracy; this bipartisan commission will review ways to strengthen that integrity in order to protect and preserve the principle of one person, one vote," said Pence, who leads the election fraud panel, told commission members in the phone call, according to a White House statement.

Kris Kobach, vice chair of the commission and Kansas secretary of state, told members he will send a letter Wednesday to the 50 states and District of Columbia requesting publicly available data from state voter rolls and feedback on how to prevent voter fraud.

The commission set July 19 as its first meeting in Washington, D.C.

Trump instituted the commission after making an unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and prevented him from winning the popular vote.

Democrats and civil rights groups have condemned the panel as a waste of taxpayer money that is meant to restrict voting access to minority groups.

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Mike Pence holds 'organizational' call with Trump's voter fraud panel - Washington Examiner