Here is an example of an inadvertent error by election workers. It resulted in 188 voters in a Wisconsin town not being able to vote in the 2024 GOP primary election for a state assembly seat. This happened because staff in the county election clerk’s office mixed up recently redrawn state leg[...]
Posts Tagged ‘elections’
Texas is still trying to imprison Crystal Mason for voting while black
I’ve posted numerous voting fraud stories on this blog. Nearly all involve Trump supporters who knowingly and intentionally voted in two states, or voted the ballot of a dead spouse or parent. I’m not picking on Republicans; they’re who’s committing the voting fraud. All got off with misdeme[...]
August 21st, 2024 - 6:04 pm § in Politics
How not to dispute an election
Roger Belknap was defeated in Michigan’s August 6, 2024, GOP primary for a position as Ottawa County commissioner. His opponent got 4,070 votes, and he got 2,997 votes (see results here, under “Ottawa County Commissioner 9th District REP”). Belknap says, “My petition for recount[...]
August 10th, 2024 - 6:50 am § in Politics
What if the governed no longer consent?
A democratic system depends on consent of the governed. Our Founding Fathers created a system of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It spelled out that “the people” were to choose our rulers and lawmakers through election. True, under that system as originally c[...]
July 10th, 2024 - 6:49 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Do illegals vote?
No, illegals don’t vote, except in tiny numbers. Few things about U.S. elections are more true than this statement: Non-citizens can’t and don’t vote in federal and state elections. Voting by illegals is extremely rare and never affects election results. We’re talking about s[...]
June 21st, 2024 - 4:46 pm § in Politics
Elections don’t have to be perfect
There’s no such thing as a perfect election. Conducting a large election is a vast and complicated enterprise. Glitches occur: Polling place snafus, voting machines that didn’t work, miscounted ballots, lost ballots, and so on. But inadvertent problems and mistakes don’t target any[...]
June 6th, 2024 - 3:20 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump’s fake crowd waves
Trump is trying to make himself look popular. Recently he’s been caught several times waving at fictitious crowds. There was this incident, staged in a parking lot behind a stadium, and also the stunt in the video below. In addition, political operatives lie about his crowd size (as here), or [...]
Biden or Trump, some choice
The 2024 polls show most Americans prefer [x] neither of the above. But presidents don’t need to be popular, and usually aren’t. JFK’s popularity was a big thing in its time because popular presidents are rare. There are three important considerations in choosing a president and po[...]
J. D. Vance hedges on 2024 election denial
Ohio isn’t really a purple state. Although one of its U.S. senators is a Democrat, its governor and two-thirds of its House delegation are Republicans, and Trump easily won the state in 2020 and is expected to repeat in 2024. J. D. Vance (photo, left), Ohio’s Republican junior senator, e[...]
May 23rd, 2023 - 6:26 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake threatens to register dogs and gilas to vote
In the wake of her latest court defeat (details here), Kari Lake is vowing to “show up to a knife fight with a gun” and “register every man, woman, dog, Gila monster” to vote (read story here). In a ballyhooed “huge announcement” on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, Lake cla[...]