02-06-2017, 02:43 PM
I don't doubt that there are some cases of voter fraud. But, all of the research done by non-partisan groups over the years, along with the recounts done last year, indicate that the minimal percentage of 'wrong votes' were almost exclusively system errors, not fraudulent votes, and did not affect the election results.
As for voter suppression, courts of law have ruled that, yes, Republican legislation was designed to discriminate against legitimate minority voters and make it more difficult for them to cast votes.
Trump's claim of voter fraud came from a blogger and Alex Jones, with no facts to support the allegation. The claim fed his ego; he is trying to put the reality of Clinton beating him by 3,000,000 in the popular vote under suspicion with gullible and like-minded people. It's working.
When Bill O'Reilly hit him up this weekend about making public claims of voter fraud without substantiation, Trump said, "a lot of people agree with me" and then again referred to dead people and people on the REGISTRATION rolls in two states. There are indeed dead people and people whose names appear on registration logs in two states (or more) -- that's a fact and nobody disputes it.
However, neither of which is unusual and neither of which in any way means that people voted in dead people's names or in more than one state. Still, I know that Trump is right when he says a lot of people believe him. What's important to me is that the facts-to-date contradict his claim and the Pew report he previously cited to support his claim actually negates his claim.
As for voter suppression, courts of law have ruled that, yes, Republican legislation was designed to discriminate against legitimate minority voters and make it more difficult for them to cast votes.
Trump's claim of voter fraud came from a blogger and Alex Jones, with no facts to support the allegation. The claim fed his ego; he is trying to put the reality of Clinton beating him by 3,000,000 in the popular vote under suspicion with gullible and like-minded people. It's working.
When Bill O'Reilly hit him up this weekend about making public claims of voter fraud without substantiation, Trump said, "a lot of people agree with me" and then again referred to dead people and people on the REGISTRATION rolls in two states. There are indeed dead people and people whose names appear on registration logs in two states (or more) -- that's a fact and nobody disputes it.
However, neither of which is unusual and neither of which in any way means that people voted in dead people's names or in more than one state. Still, I know that Trump is right when he says a lot of people believe him. What's important to me is that the facts-to-date contradict his claim and the Pew report he previously cited to support his claim actually negates his claim.