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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP voting conspiracy theories’
June 24th, 2024 - 3:16 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Losing candidate isn’t entitled to “confidence” in election
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), who is trailing his primary opponent by 373 votes, plans to challenge the outcome and hopes to block certification of Lynchburg’s votes “due to his ‘lack of confidence’ in the results” (read story here). “We’re going to be making the legal chal[...]
June 21st, 2024 - 2:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOPer blames election loss on random fire alarms
Milk this cow for all she’s worth, ma! That’s not what you think. Cows from this herd give excuses, not milk. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), a Freedom Caucus firebrand, is trailing in a primary. Looking for excuses to challenge a close election, he called out three suspicious “fires” [...]
June 8th, 2024 - 2:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Voting fraud found in 2024 election!
GOP lawyers and operatives have found voting fraud in Georgia’s 2024 presidential election months before the election. Of course, like all other GOP voting fraud claims, it’s fabricated. Rolling Stone says, “Lawyers close to Trump are already preparing … to claim fraud in Ge[...]
May 31st, 2024 - 8:17 pm § in Politics
“2000 Mules” conspiracy film pulled from circulation
2000 Mules, a debunked propaganda film falsely alleging ballot box stuffing in the 2020 election, has been pulled from circulation by its publisher and a companion book will not be published (read story here). Its creator, Dinesh D’Souza, is an ex-felon. He was convicted of making illegal camp[...]
May 21st, 2024 - 1:02 am § in Law and Courts
Are you safe if the sheriff is crazy?
Calvin Hayden (photo, left) is a Kansas sheriff, the chief law enforcement officer of Johnson County. That county is no backwater. It’s part of the Kansas City metro area, and Kansas’ most heavily populated county. Its sheriff’s department employs nearly 500 deputies. But the sheri[...]
May 8th, 2024 - 8:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
MAGA Mike in hot pursuit of phantom voting fraud!
There’s no evidence illegals vote, but GOP Speaker “MAGA Mike” Johnson (photo, left) doesn’t need any evidence. He knows it “intuitively.” (Read story here.) His press conference on the Capitol steps on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, was as clownish as the movie scene be[...]
March 18th, 2023 - 2:37 am § in Politics, Republicans
They can believe whatever they like, but they can’t have our elections
America is a free country where people, if they wish, can believe the earth is 6,000 years old (or flat, if they prefer), climate change is a hoax, and elephants fly. They can also believe rigged voting machines stole the 2020 election from Trump and all the other lies Fox puts on the air to [&helli[...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]
Fox News is in serious hot water
Millions of Americans watch only Fox News, and don’t get news from any other source, which is a great big problem. It’s a great big problem because Fox is propaganda, not news. It’s brainwashing, not informing, its audiences. Its top opinion-shaper, Tucker Carlson, is a Russia symp[...]