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Counting the documented cases of voter fraud in 2016 - MSNBC
Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be comfortable with the fact that he lost the popular vote. I suppose it’s hard to blame him: the president-elect is taking office with the knowledge that Americans were given a choice between two major-party candidates, and he came in second.
To make himself feel better, Trump recently declared that it only looks like he lost the popular vote – which the Republican believes he secretly won “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Trump, of course, was brazenly lying, and neither he nor his aides have been able to substantiate the claim in anyway.
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The (Washington) Post’s research found a grand total of four documented instances of voters attempted to cast fraudulent votes. Not four percent, literally four individuals.
And most of them were Republicans.
No, really. A Trump voter in Iowa got caught trying to vote twice in Des Moines, and when asked for an explanation, she said, “The polls are rigged.” She was joined by a Texas Republican who claimed to be associated with the Trump campaign who tried to vote twice because he wanted to “test” the integrity of the system. (Evidently, the system works fine.) Also, a Republican woman in Illinois was caught filling out an absentee ballot for her deceased husband. - MSNBC
To make himself feel better, Trump recently declared that it only looks like he lost the popular vote – which the Republican believes he secretly won “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Trump, of course, was brazenly lying, and neither he nor his aides have been able to substantiate the claim in anyway.
<snip>
The (Washington) Post’s research found a grand total of four documented instances of voters attempted to cast fraudulent votes. Not four percent, literally four individuals.
And most of them were Republicans.
No, really. A Trump voter in Iowa got caught trying to vote twice in Des Moines, and when asked for an explanation, she said, “The polls are rigged.” She was joined by a Texas Republican who claimed to be associated with the Trump campaign who tried to vote twice because he wanted to “test” the integrity of the system. (Evidently, the system works fine.) Also, a Republican woman in Illinois was caught filling out an absentee ballot for her deceased husband. - MSNBC
Impressionable Donald supporters. But how many more acted out in this election in the same manner, "because polls are rigged or they wanted to test the integrity of the system or felt it necessary to cast a vote for their deceased spouse?"
Makes you wonder about those small deep red rural polling precincts and who may be taking advantage of phantom registered voters within those precincts. Is there a common hand writing to potential phantom voters' signatures? Is that the level to which we need to scrutinize who is purportedly voting nowadays?
