Undermining public confidence in elections has become a standard Republican tactics deployed by GOP politicians and activists alike. In Pennsylvania, a Republican voting fraud vigilante accused a group of nuns of voting fraud for — get this — registering to vote where they live. Activist[...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP voting conspiracy theories’
October 24th, 2024 - 3:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Dodgy GOP activist accuses nuns of voting fraud
October 24th, 2024 - 1:53 pm § in Politics
Election hanky-panky begins
Ballots are going out to voters across America, and reports of incidents have begun trickling in. In Colorado “at least a dozen” ballots were stolen from the mail, filled out, and returned. The signatures didn’t match, so the voters were contacted, who reported they never received [...]
October 23rd, 2024 - 11:26 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Do unicorns vote?
“Suppose you are chatting with your neighbor when, out of the blue, they mention their deep and abiding concern that unicorns are being killed by unscrupulous hunters. You can argue with them that unicorns aren’t real, or you could switch to talking about the weather.” Well, yes, u[...]
October 17th, 2024 - 8:07 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Texas GOP governor exaggerated non-citizen voting
In August 2024, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted the state removed more than 6,500 noncitizens from its voting rolls. The registrations were canceled “through a routine practice” of culling voter lists of people “who have moved or died,” the Texas Tribune said here. That’[...]
October 17th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Suspicion ≠ Fact
This is so obvious, so basic, we should be able to agree on it. A mere suspicion isn’t a fact; and disputed facts require proof. That’s how our legal system works, and that’s how most people conduct their daily affairs. A partisan election board’s paranoia about voting fraud shouldn’t be g[...]
Vance embraces Trump’s Big Lie
After dancing around the question at the October 1 debate, and for weeks afterward, J. D. Vance finally answered it. He said: “I think there are serious problems in 2020. So, did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.” (Read story here.) Vance, in his own word[...]
October 6th, 2024 - 11:33 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Elon Musk’s mother urges GOPers to “vote 10 times”
Maye Musk (photo, left), Elon’s mother, is a Trumper like her son. She also thinks Republicans committing voting fraud is perfectly okay. “You don’t have to register to vote,” she said. “On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and[...]
Why political lies matter
You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]
September 25th, 2024 - 1:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Wisconsin mayor drags his city into ballot drop box wars
Wisconsin was a pivotal state in the 2020 election, and could be again in 2024. Absentee voting is optional in that state, at the voter’s choice with no reason required. For military personnel, travelers, persons working away from home (e.g., truck drivers and airline crews), the elderly and d[...]
I don’t care that Republicans don’t trust our elections
“A fed-up CNN anchor Anderson Cooper cut off” ex-Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) for defending Trump’s assertion that a fifth of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots were “fraudulent” in 2020. This is a fable. Mail-in ballots are verified just like polling place ballots. The[...]