A Minnesota woman who died on August 31, 2024, voted for Trump on October 7, 2024, assisted by a daughter who’s also an avid Trump supporter. The ballot was mailed September 20, and by then Rose Marie Javorina was so stiff she couldn’t fill out it herself, so Danielle Miller did it for h[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Voting Fraud’
October 24th, 2024 - 3:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Dodgy GOP activist accuses nuns of voting fraud
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[...]
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 - 4:44 pm § in Law and Courts
This wasn’t voting fraud
But she spent four months in jail, anyway, because Idaho is a lousy rotten state. Laurie Erickson of Boise, Idaho, is an ex-convict. When she was released in 2018, the department of corrections didn’t tell her she couldn’t vote. While she was still on probation in 2020, the secretary of [...]
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’[...]
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[...]
Speaking about “a concern that Americans have” …
Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), passed over by Trump when he chose his 2024 running mate, is defending Trump’s latest election rant. On Saturday, September 7, 2024, Trump posted this on his social media platform: “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of th[...]
September 7th, 2024 - 11:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump promises to prosecute election cheaters
Trump made a campaign promise on Saturday, September 7, 2024, to go after election cheaters. He posted it on Truth Social, his social media platform, and it goes like this: “The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WI[...]
July 28th, 2024 - 4:04 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Should children vote?
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s 2024 running mate for now, seems to think so. The premise of Vance’s now-infamous “childless cat ladies” jibe is that people without children shouldn’t run the country because they have no stake in its future. Like much else Vance believ[...]