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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: Tip of a massive iceberg? [View all]

magicarpet

(16,557 posts)
3. Not VOTER fraud - this is ELECTION fraud ......
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:19 AM
Dec 2016

Please be careful how you frame election improprieties - ELECTION fraud is perpetrated by the people who administer the election process to gain a fraudulent advantage over the election results - VOTER fraud is perpetrated by single individual voters who attempt to fraudulently skew election results in favor of their chosen candidate. The later is extremely rare the former much more common.

Republican's bogus claims of voter fraud bring us laws/rules for stringent voter identification prior to being able to vote - bogus cross check data bases - bogus felon list data bases - curtailment of early voting - and a myriad of other methods to disenfranchise elderly - minority - college student voters who would likely vote for the Democratic candidate. With the explicit purpose of intentionally denying/curtailing/and - or hampering people of liberal/progressive/ political leanings from their rights to vote.

Do not misconstrue ELECTION fraud for VOTER fraud you feed and perpetuate the Republican/ultra-conservative theme that liberally inclined voters conspire to fraudulently tamper with election results. In actuality VOTER fraud is minor and minuscule and a very rare occurrence. Stringent rules against voter fraud are a ruse to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters ability to cast their ballot and prevent their votes from being counted thus enhancing the vote count of the Republican/Conservative candidates ability to "win"/take/steal election results.

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