Trumps lie about illegal votes will have dangerous consequences

[deminks]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-voter-fraud-lie-ad102f21729c#.eg19lhybz

President Trump falsely claimed during a meeting with congressional leaders Monday that he would have won the popular vote if it were not for three to five million illegal votes.

At least three sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Post about Trump’s lie, which occurred during a private reception at the White House. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) refused to confirm Trump’s comment, but said they discussed “different electoral college, popular votes.”

There is only one popular vote count, and Trump lost it. The final count puts Hillary Clinton’s vote total close to three million higher than Trump’s.

(snip)

In reality, over 128 million votes were cast in 2016, but there have been just four documented cases of voter fraud. At least three of those illegal voters supported Trump.

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According to a 2017 preview published by the Brennan Center for Justice, “at least 33 bills to restrict access to registration and voting have been introduced in 16 states” as of January 17. Nine states — Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Virginia, and Wyoming — are already considering strict voter ID legislation, despite court rulings and studies finding that requiring photo ID at the polls is discriminatory and reduced minority turnout.

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emphasis mine.

[SamKnause]

1. Rep. Steve King was just on MSNBC spreading the same LIE.

Republicans are EVIL !!!

They will not stop until America is a police state Theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

[Cha]

2. The thing is.. his latest big ugly lie is just reminding

everyone that Hillary Won the Popular Vote by 3 Million.. I'm rounding up.

Pathological Lying aside.

[gitchel]

3. Here's why Trump wants to investigate

Not that the Troll King’s court would be this sneaky, but this “investigation” would give the Justice Department – or some other federal entity – full access to every state’s voter rolls and records. Two possible destinations for this info are (1) creation of a database (just for easy analysis of the alien voter problem, of course) that wouldn’t need the authorization withheld from Pompeo’s giant lifestyle database (of course, adding such info to the voter investigation database would help them spot aliens, right?), or (2) this new info could be addded to the NSA’s database. (That was once the Total Imformayion Awareness database that Poindexter wanted but couldn’t get authorization for. The software was given to the NSA, who don’t need no stinking authorization.)

Any way you cut it, it’s a lot of information – carefully gathered, verified, and formatted using your state tax money – that could easily complete, fill out, verify, or begin a huge domestic database without any need for the congressional authorization that they’ve never been able to get.
All this being justified by the simple fact that people move from one state to another all the time, and few states bother to ask or notice.

An odd thought: for an opposing party to take significant advantage of this, they’d have to have a pretty good database of all the voter rolls from all the states.

Which is silly. Nobody has that, right?