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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen a Republican tells you the election is rigged, send them to this site
http://istheelectionrigged.comrecovering_democrat
(224 posts)I have already used it to send several idiots to this site.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Enjoy your Sunday!
krispos42
(49,445 posts)See Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, etc.
ID requirements, voter list purges, cutting early & absentee voting, shuffling precincts, removing or combining polling places, and so on.
Plus the ever-present gerrymandering.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Isn't anything okay if it's done by a Republican? You know, win at all costs because GOP=good, Democrats=bad.
(total sarcasm)
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)when voters names are erased from the rolls and unnecessary restrictions are placed on identification and the integrity of voting machines is compromised. That's the only rigging and its done by the GOP. I've been hearing this voter fraud shit from conservatives for years as an excuse for not winning because, except for us liberals, everyone would vote Republican if it was fair, by golly.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Voter fraud and election fraud..
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)Voter fraud is about individual voters.. being registered to vote in more than one place, not being eligible to vote but voting anyway. It's a crime committed by an individual.
Election fraud involves a concerted effort to influence elections by removing voters from rolls, hacking voting machines, interfering with voter registration, etc. and are crimes committed by election officials.
I'm no expert, for sure, this is just how I've interpreted it.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)But the fuckwads are too stupid to understand the difference.
And there HAS been election fraud and manipulation.
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)instead of they. My reading skills aren't as good as they used to be, so forgive my little lesson there. But it's good to know you agree with me.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)usually to suppress the black vote in the Southeast by purging the voter rolls, challenging eligibility, or severe limitations on the hours and early voting locations in black neighborhoods.
Why not let the republicans think it's rigged? A nation-wide review of local election processes could be good for us as liberals. It could expose a lot of the modern Jim Crow style nonsense.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)logic and reason to change somebody's opinions if they didn't use logic and reason to come to those opinions.
I have started just pushing their crazy buttons and get em even mo fired up!
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)it's a mandate and he was chosen by God
When a Democrat wins in a landslide, it was rigged, he's not MY president, time to grab the shootin' irons and take back Murika, etc.
lark
(23,102 posts)Putin is desperate to get a tin pot dictator in the WH who end sanctions against them, cede them Syria, destroy NATO and let Russia invade and take over Ukraine and other eastern European countries in exchange for debt forgiveness and for the oligarchs buying lots of McMansions.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Thanks for the link.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)But I'll bookmark it just in case I need a quick rebuttal.