McConnell tries to pin NC-09 scandal on Democrats, confuses voter fraud with election fraud

[turbinetree]

Election fraud is not the same as voter fraud.
Josh Israel
Feb 26, 2019, 12:08 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) mocked his Democratic colleagues Tuesday morning for opposing strict voter ID laws while also opposing the sort of absentee ballot theft and manipulation that lead North Carolina’s state board of elections to order a new election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional district last week.

“For years and years, every Republican who dared to call for common-sense safeguards for Americans’ ballots was demonized by Democrats and their allies,” McConnell said from the Senate floor. “We were hit with left-wing talking points insisting that voter fraud wasn’t real. ‘Never happens,’ they said.”

“Now that an incident of very real voter fraud has become national news and the Republican candidate seems to have benefited, these longstanding Democratic talking points have been really quiet. Haven’t heard much from Democrats lately about how fraud really happens,” he continued.

https://thinkprogress.org/mcconnell-says-nc-election-fraud-proves-need-for-voter-id-laws-0f82e8024126/


FUCK YOU Moscow Mitch and the horse you ride on, you know your fascist republican ELECTION FRAUD enabling team member right........................ .

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................

[zaj]

1. The entire party has collapsed into a propaganda cyclone

There's nothing left of the party but testing out new lies to see what works.

[Hassler]

2. He's not confusing anything, he's deliberately l-y-i-n-g.

[Caliman73]

3. Did a Democratic Senator not step up and correct him?

It would have been good for someone on our side to step up and say something like:

"Senator McConnell, you came up and gave a speech about voter fraud and voter ID laws, which to me says one of two things, 1. You are ignorant of the difference between voter fraud or more accurately voter impersonation fraud, which is what voter ID laws are supposedly designed to address, and election fraud which is what has happened in North Carolina, and which voter ID laws would not affect at all. OR 2. You are cynical and know the differences but are playing partisan games because your party wants to suppress the vote. The reality is that voter impersonation fraud is negligible and has no effect on the outcome of elections while elections fraud, which coincidentally, is something that Republicans are convicted of WAY more than Democrats, is a real problem and has affected at least this race we are talking about in North Carolina. When Republicans want to have real discussion about how to have a election process with integrity, there is a bill that the Democratic Party has put forth to address the REAL problems with the election system."

[monmouth4]

4. What the hell is wrong with our Democrats? Are they fearful of this clown, not listening, not

there?

[Caliman73]

5. You would think that it would be a chance for one of the candidates to step up.

It would have been a golden opportunity for one of the candidates for President, from the Senate to step up and separate the Democratic Party from the Republicans on this issue and reframe the debate.

Republicans want voter ID because they want to decrease participation by citizens in the elections. Democrats actually want to expand access to the vote while at the same time, stopping the dirty tricks that Republicans use to win despite having less of the population that supports their policies.

They cannot win in a healthy democracy so they try to keep it broken and blame the most vulnerable people for it being broken.

[monmouth4]

6. Absolutely to all you said. A very missed opportunity.. n/t