Conservative donors have spent at least $65 million on anti-trans advertising in the 2024 election cycle, according to the New York Times (see story here). They’re spending this money to elect Republican candidates, of course, but let’s pretend it’s being spent to keep trans athlet[...]
Posts Tagged ‘elections’
October 18th, 2024 - 12:32 am § in Politics, Republicans
How much is a trans athlete worth to a GOP donor?
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[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 12:28 am § in Politics, Republicans
Republicans don’t like elections
They’re suing to purge voter rolls. CNN reports, “As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls … are pending in 19 states” (read story here). A voting rights lawyer called it an “assault” on voter registrations and voter lists. CNN added, “Questioning the accurac[...]
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[...]
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[...]
September 1st, 2024 - 4:19 pm § in Politics
Election errors aren’t fraud
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[...]
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[...]