You have a better chance of snapping a photo of Bigfoot than you have of a voter fraud incident in your jurisdiction, but it infuriates me that the myth of widespread voter fraud persists.
Start looking for illegals bused in by the GOP to vote illegally.
There’s a this American Life episode about this, starts off being about the birthday paradox… Gives a good run down of how voter fraud has been disproven as an issue:
Years ago the ACLU actually had Kris Kobach’s records on voter fraud cases from when he was KS Attorney General. I poured over them, and over fifteen years of reports he prosecuted something like ten cases affecting even fewer votes.
And that’s a guy who built his whole career around voter fraud. Even he couldn’t produce evidence that it actually existed.
Those records may still be on the ACLU’s website if any of you want to take a look.
And when voter fraud is found… It’s Republicans.
“If I feel like I could justify doing it then that means they can do the same so I better do it to compensate for them doing it!” But the truth is, the other side isn’t doing it…
In San Francisco, a resolution was passed allowing undocumented residents who had children to vote legally in school board elections and no one voted. My guess is that even if officially invited to vote, an undocumented person isn’t going to just give the government their name and address. So yeah, Republicans are just conjuring up yet another conspiracy theory to rattle what they themselves call “low information voters”, aka their base.
Agreed. I can’t see undocumented people risking their lives trying to vote.
Anything to avoid having actual policies and ideas.
When they write down their stances, it’s a scandal. See how unpopular (and terrifying) Project 2025 is.
because the goal is to end voting for citizens
2016 election Republicans made Muslims the problem.
2018 election Republicans made the Black people the problem.
2020 election Republicans made the Chinese the problem.
2022 election Republicans made Trans people the problem.
2024 election Republicans make Mexicans and Central Americans the problem.
Seeing a trend here. Can’t put my finger on it.
Oh all of the above have been “the problem” as long as I’ve been alive, at the same time.
It’s almost like it isn’t everyone else that’s the problem
The “first they came for…” quote is probably more damaging than people realize. They don’t systematically make more different people the problem. Everyone is fair game at all times whenever it’s opportune.
Except cis hetero christian white men.
You are correct. However, every cycle they single out one group and hit all the same fear tactics. It’s not new or innovative but it has the same deadly results.
Trump losing won’t change the party viewpoint. It will just make them more secretive. Closet racists again.
There’s an amendment on the ballot here in Missouri to ban non-citizens from voting this year. Also to ban ever adopting ranked choice voting, but it’s really about that non-citizen thing. Totally not ballot candy to do something undemocratic.
If you’re in Missouri, vote no on amendment 7 please.
I intend to.
Isn’t it already illegal to vote as a non-citizen?
Yeah that’s the point. They know it’s already illegal, they put it on the ballot to drive turnout. Conservative voters are convinced that non citizens are voting in droves.
And to trick them into banning ranked choice voting.
Edit: spelling
In their mind they literally can’t accept that more people disagree with them then not, and this is the only way they can accept it
You can hear the silent majority screaming form the rooftops
You’re right about that.
They always try to (need to?) turn things into a binary. Yes or no. It’s a question of how many, but they find one and act like it’s everywhere.
Same thing with the one woman killed by an illegal immigrant. They find the case study and act like it’s everywhere.
Illegal voting by noncitizens is far less rare than illegal voting by conservatives.
I was coming here to ask this very thing. Weren’t most instances of fraud perpetrated by the republican chodes anyway? It’s pretty simple: they know they can’t win fairly, so everything has to be a convoluted shit-show with absolutely no substance whatsoever.
There was a Republican chode here in Wisconsin who voted twice to prove that people could vote twice. (The clerks caught his double vote, and he got prosecuted.)
No, it’s far less common, not less rare.
Gah, my coffee to blood ratio is still too low.
You want to claim fraud to get the RIGHT people to vote
Also to get the
whiteright people to intimidate thebrownwrong people into staying home, under the guise of “poll watchers.”
Of course they are. It’s a narrative. Now they have a reason why they lost.
From what I remember, more republicans committed voter fraud last election over anyone else to ensure their “unbeatable god” wins
I’d say it’s ironic, but given their history, it’s really not.
It wasn’t that long ago that Donald Trump ordered mail drops removed, and Louis DeJoy ordered post offices shut down, and sorting machines removed from USPS distribution centers.
That was objectively the biggest voter fraud ever committed.
Focusing on immigrants and illegality is always an easy way to get votes.
Most countries are pretty OK, but their politicians fearmonger for their own gain.
And it’s that fearmongering that eventually destroys the country, free speech and privacy.
