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babylonsister

(171,075 posts)
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:40 PM Sep 2012

Fox News Fail: Fox Hosts Voter Fraud Expert Who Debunks Their Own Voter Fraud Claims

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Fox News Fail: Fox Hosts Voter Fraud Expert Who Debunks Their Own Voter Fraud Claims

By: Jason Easley
September 20th, 2012


Fox News spend their days whipping up fear of voter fraud, but today they hosted a voter fraud expert who destroyed all of their claims.

Here is the video from Media Matters @ link~

George Mason professor Michael McDonald sat down with Shep Smith and delivered a dose of reality to Fox News viewers.

Smith asked voter fraud, big problem? McDonald answered, “Well, as far as we can tell the vote fraud occurs primarily along absentee voting so it’s starting right now, and some of the laws that have been implemented don’t really address the source of the main fraud that we see in the system.”

Smith asked, “How would you quantify it?” McDonald said, “Very low. We’ve had millions and millions of voters over the last years, and the likelihood of vote fraud occurring is on the order of winning the lottery…It’s a very rare infrequent sort of thing, but when it does happen we are concerned and election officials do take these allegations seriously. They investigate them fully. Usually, what happens the allegations come and then afterwards we find out that maybe somebody signed on the wrong line on a poll book or something, and that’s the source of the error. It wasn’t really that vote fraud occurred.”

Somebody better tell Professor McDonald that this isn’t what the rest of Fox News has been saying.

In August, John Fund was on Fox News claiming that voter fraud is occurring, and it is reality:
Video @ link~
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Fox News Fail: Fox Hosts Voter Fraud Expert Who Debunks Their Own Voter Fraud Claims (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2012 OP
k&r tk2kewl Sep 2012 #1
Shep Smith is the only one of those Fox idiots with any sense Beaverhausen Sep 2012 #2
Fox News voter fraud is kind of an oxymoron. Initech Sep 2012 #3

Initech

(100,083 posts)
3. Fox News voter fraud is kind of an oxymoron.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 08:01 PM
Sep 2012

Especially when you consider the network was the instigator for two of the greatest acts of election fraud in human history and is the catalyst for that horrible Citizens United decision.

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