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Warning: Voter Purge Dead Ahead! (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2017 OP
Sure as hell sounds like it dalton99a Jan 2017 #1
When you have a vastly unpopular, bigoted and failed ideology... Raster Jan 2017 #2
I would like to say GP6971 Jan 2017 #3
yep bigtree Jan 2017 #4
Thanks for the link! GP6971 Jan 2017 #8
big time suppression or the way things look okieinpain Jan 2017 #5
And who exactly is going to do that review?... Princess Turandot Jan 2017 #6
That's why blotus keeps Lying about Hillary getting more Cha Jan 2017 #7
I expect nothing less Jamaal510 Jan 2017 #9
How can you claim voter fraud Thrill Jan 2017 #10
The voting rights people are gearing up to fight this Gothmog Jan 2017 #11
Former President Obama said he plans to focus on the vote bigtree Jan 2017 #13
If they start purging we need to work it into resistance Tuesdays Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #12
There was a post on DU saying the 3-5 million lie was just a distraction. rogue emissary Jan 2017 #14

Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. When you have a vastly unpopular, bigoted and failed ideology...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:20 PM
Jan 2017

...at the core of your party, the only thing you can do IS INHIBIT LAWFUL, LEGAL VOTERS from casting their votes.

GP6971

(31,168 posts)
3. I would like to say
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:30 PM
Jan 2017

Good Luck with that, but I know better. You just know the only states that will be targeted are the blue states.

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
4. yep
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:32 PM
Jan 2017
Spicer Admits Trump 'Voter Fraud Investigation' Will Target 'Urban' Communities
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028540660

from Vanity Fair:

Spicer, in his comments to the press, appeared to narrow the scope of the investigation even more, suggesting that the bulk of alleged voter fraud may have occurred in California and New York—two overwhelmingly Democratic states that have not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the 1980s.

“We didn’t look at those two states in particular,” said Spicer. “As the president has noted before, he campaigned to win the Electoral College, not the popular vote,” Spicer said, apparently by way of explanation. “You would have campaigned more in California, which he didn’t; you would have campaigned more in New York, which he didn’t. There are big states, very populous states and urban areas where you would have spent more time campaigning, but he played the game according to the rules of the game, which is the electoral strategy.”

Spicer continued: “That being said, I think when you look at where a lot of the potential issues could have occurred, in these bigger states, I think that’s where we’re going to look.”

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
6. And who exactly is going to do that review?...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:33 PM
Jan 2017

Is Trump going to hire people to do this? Will the states even give them access to private data to do a review that they don't think is necessary? If this ever gets to a point where there's actually some regulatory specifics, my guess is that Jerry Brown et al will tell them to go pound sand, and then go to court if necessary.

This is the case with most of his flurry of EOs: no action can be taken by the Trump House to follow through on or enforce them until there's details or actual regulations (as needed) to go with his 'bold' decisions.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
7. That's why blotus keeps Lying about Hillary getting more
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:33 PM
Jan 2017

votes from "illegals".. they want to purge the legal votes.

Thrill

(19,178 posts)
10. How can you claim voter fraud
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:39 PM
Jan 2017

And at the same time claim none of the fraudulent voters voted for you

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
13. Former President Obama said he plans to focus on the vote
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:53 PM
Jan 2017

...whatever other aspect he planned to work on, gerrymandering, or whatever, he needs to make time to mobilize folks to nail down their registrations and get them to the polls.

Maru Kitteh

(28,341 posts)
12. If they start purging we need to work it into resistance Tuesdays
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:50 PM
Jan 2017

Overload Secretaries of State all over the country with complaints requests for verification, register voters EVERYWHERE, every month.

Registration every month is a good goal no matter what they do.



rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
14. There was a post on DU saying the 3-5 million lie was just a distraction.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:56 PM
Jan 2017

Saw this coming from a mile away. Donny lying about illegals voting was the groundwork to enact more voter disenfranchisement.

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