but, take a look at those links and analyze what they are really saying
the first is from a right wing think tank, and that think tank is one of the main go-to sources of propaganda for the R's when they try and justify voter suppression. I know that because I've seen them cited repeatedly by people like Kris Kobach and other right wing advocates of voter suppression; and I've been tracking this for years.
For chirssakes that fucking think tank was founded by Steve Bannon; also Peter Schweizer, another inmate at Breitbart...lol. Why the hell would anyone accept their "analysis" on face value?
And that '
report' they printed is slippery as hell. They make a big deal about using buzzwords and numbers that sound large, but when you follow the train a little further you end up with much much smaller numbers, and a large percentage of those numbers are unconfirmed
for instance, they say they found 7700 cases of 'likely' duplicate voting, but the reality is they only found 1200 cases of "
confirmed" duplicate voting....out of 128M votes cast. In case you're wondering, that's .00009%. LOL.
they say they found 15,000 cases of 'illegal' addresses like PO boxes. How many of those cases were due to people not knowing those were invalid addresses. And how many of them actually voted and did any of those votes count, or were they all disqualified because of the addresses. That seems extremely likely and that's the system working, not failing; but you wouldn't know that if you were buying the tone of the supposed report
or that they found 1.8 million cases of deceased on voting rolls. There's almost no evidence at all there is any significant level of dead people voting...or of people voting in place of dead people. But doesn't that 1.8M number sound huge!! And, just how quickly should state election divisions remove dead people from rolls? Shouldn't they wait until they receive confirmation of death? How long does that take? I'd wager there's a much higher incidence of voters being declared ineligible because they have wrongly been listed as dead, that fraud from these registrations
That isn't a report at all...it's just an anecdotal collection of few small numbers and giant truckloads of innuendo and horseshit designed as cover for voter suppression. But more than that is the implication that this stuff is new. It's not; these are age-old issues, and none of it has undermined democracy like the republican jihad of voter suppression has
your other link was about 10 convictions for voter fraud in Oregon....out of over 2 million votes cast.
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certainly, you and I have different perspectives on this....and different biases I guess. You seem to find a basis for a '
pox-on-both-houses-both-sides-do-it' narrative that fits you overall view on things political
I view it as further evidence that the R's are using bullshit as the justification for massive voter suppression. And now, they are using the same bullshit as a loose justification for destroying the postal service. They have no interest at all in the integrity of elections...nothing could be more obvious.
think about it TB...you used a report from Steve Bannon as a justification of your position...really?
