Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:10 PM Jan 2017

WAIT !!! Trump's claims of voter fraud undermines the credibility our democratic elections....

... cause Russia hacking state and electoral boards and hacking the DNC in order to help Benedict Donald get elected could never ever do that !!!


WTF !?!?



Someone SAY SOMETHING about the M$M crazy shit !!!!!



Your take?


tia

7 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
1. All I know is that King County, WA has had problems throwing away votes...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:12 PM
Jan 2017

since long before Trump ran. We have major problems, and they started before he even ran. Of course, he has made them worse.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
2. Maybe this is the reason why he's backing away from the voter fraud claim (per Chris Hayes) cause
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:14 PM
Jan 2017

... it'll turn up so shit that was shady

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. Yep -definitely weird that NOW all of a sudden the election system is being underminded.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:19 PM
Jan 2017

By trump's goofy comments (despite those reports of illegal voting by non-citizens going on for years now.)

How many non-citizen votes were likely cast in 2008?
Taking the most conservative estimate those who both
said they voted and cast a verified vote yields a confidence
interval based on sampling error between 0.2%
and 2.8% for the portion of non-citizens participating in
elections. Taking the least conservative measure at
least one indicator showed that the respondent voted
yields an estimate that between 7.9% and 14.7% percent
of non-citizens voted in 2008
. Since the adult non-
citizen population of the United States was roughly
19.4 million (CPS, 2011), the number of non-citizen
voters (including both uncertainty based on normally
distributed sampling error, and the various combinations
of verified and reported voting) could range from just
over 38,000 at the very minimum to nearly 2.8million at
the maximum.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Do-Non-Citizens-Vote-in-US-Elections-Richman-et-al.pdf


Here’s what the math should look like (that is, if Richman’s initial study was accurate—which many researchers doubt). If 6.4 percent of the estimated 20.3 million noncitizens in the US voted, and if just 81.8 percent of them voted for Clinton (the percentage who voted for Obama in his 2008 study), that’s an added margin of a little more than 835,000 votes. In other words: Even with all of those supposedly fraudulent ballots, Clinton still would have won the popular vote by more than 2 million votes.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/author-trumps-favorite-voter-fraud-study-says-everyones-wrong/

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
4. +1, and he's claiming all 5 million votes are going to Clinton. At some point we're going to have to
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 09:21 PM
Jan 2017

... ignore his tantrums

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
6. Foreigners voiting in our elections is more tangible and believable
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:06 PM
Jan 2017

The republicans are still on a mission to suppress to vote for 2018 and beyond. Also part of the agenda is to make people suspicious of immigrants. An election with incongruent resuls couldn't have been better luck for them to push that. People from all parties are incredulous about this election. It still feels bizarre to us that he could possibly win. That kind of insecurity is what is driving Trump to keep pushing his big lie about the numbers and his popularity. The republicans know it is helpful to their electoral agenda. In that sense, it's hard to tell if he is a useful idiot being instructed or if he knows the plan and is doing what he knows works. Either way it is working. While people are wringing their hands over Trump's mental health, his administration is planning investigations into elections.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»WAIT !!! Trump's claims o...