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This post isn't about voter fraud.

by stopping 5y ago

bananabiscuit 5y ago
- shalmanese 5y ago
  - treeman79 5y ago
    - colinmhayes 5y ago
      Did Trump not implore his vice president and successfully convince multiple senate and house reps to disenfranchise millions of voters in Arizona?
      - treeman79 5y ago
        No. Asking for recounts and investigations is normal behavior in close elections for both parties.
        colinmhayes 5y ago
        And when there was a vote to not recognize the electors for Arizona? That was normal?
  - EarlKing 5y ago
    Corruption is endemic on both sides of the aisle. Please stop spreading bullshit.
    - hedora 5y ago
      Look up the discrepancies between exit polls and official tallies in any US presidential election since 2000. Discrepancies are common and only happen in districts in swing states where the electronic machines that don't have paper trails. Every single case of a large discrepancy shows an error in favor of the Republican candidate. Similarly, Texas's Republican governor put out a bounty for documented evidence of voter fraud. The only pay out was for proof a Republican attempted to vote twice. It's well-established that Gore won Florida in 2000, and therefore should have been president. If this sort of thing really happens on both sides of the isle, how come there is no tangible evidence the Democrats thew an election this century?
    - dang 5y ago
      Please stick to the site guidelines. Perhaps you don't owe corrupt aisle-sides better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - IncRnd 5y ago
    They also say there there was no voter fraud at the same time they call for reforms to stop fraud. If you read the bills you referenced you'll see they don't do what you have been told they do.
    - rjbwork 5y ago
      There is almost no voter fraud. And all verified instances I've read about have been from Trump/Republican voters. There does seem to be fairly common election fraud, though.
    - mike_d 5y ago
      Voter fraud and voter supression are two different things. Fraud is I sneak into the booth and change your vote before it is counted. Suppression is stopping bus service on election day in the neighborhoods that don't vote how you want them to. Democrats are accused of fraud, but there are almost no cases of it happening (and they all end up being in favor of Republicans when they are found). Republicans use suppression so often that in 1965 a law was passed requiring them to get federal approval to make changes that impact voting, which unfortunately was overturned in 2013.

This post isn't about voter fraud.

bananabiscuit 5y ago

shalmanese 5y ago
- treeman79 5y ago
  - colinmhayes 5y ago
    Did Trump not implore his vice president and successfully convince multiple senate and house reps to disenfranchise millions of voters in Arizona?
    - treeman79 5y ago
      No. Asking for recounts and investigations is normal behavior in close elections for both parties.
      - colinmhayes 5y ago
        And when there was a vote to not recognize the electors for Arizona? That was normal?
- EarlKing 5y ago
  Corruption is endemic on both sides of the aisle. Please stop spreading bullshit.
  - hedora 5y ago
    Look up the discrepancies between exit polls and official tallies in any US presidential election since 2000. Discrepancies are common and only happen in districts in swing states where the electronic machines that don't have paper trails. Every single case of a large discrepancy shows an error in favor of the Republican candidate. Similarly, Texas's Republican governor put out a bounty for documented evidence of voter fraud. The only pay out was for proof a Republican attempted to vote twice. It's well-established that Gore won Florida in 2000, and therefore should have been president. If this sort of thing really happens on both sides of the isle, how come there is no tangible evidence the Democrats thew an election this century?
  - dang 5y ago
    Please stick to the site guidelines. Perhaps you don't owe corrupt aisle-sides better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- IncRnd 5y ago
  They also say there there was no voter fraud at the same time they call for reforms to stop fraud. If you read the bills you referenced you'll see they don't do what you have been told they do.
  - rjbwork 5y ago
    There is almost no voter fraud. And all verified instances I've read about have been from Trump/Republican voters. There does seem to be fairly common election fraud, though.
  - mike_d 5y ago
    Voter fraud and voter supression are two different things. Fraud is I sneak into the booth and change your vote before it is counted. Suppression is stopping bus service on election day in the neighborhoods that don't vote how you want them to. Democrats are accused of fraud, but there are almost no cases of it happening (and they all end up being in favor of Republicans when they are found). Republicans use suppression so often that in 1965 a law was passed requiring them to get federal approval to make changes that impact voting, which unfortunately was overturned in 2013.