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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:16 AM Jan 2017

Trump just tweeted to praise Gregg Phillipps / VoteStand

Probably a reaction to CNN taking Phillips apart this morning.

And I just heard the tweet mentioned on CNN...




Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!




Editing to add a link to the Raw Story article on the CNN interview:

Trump-approved ‘voter fraud’ conspiracy theorist goes down in flames during trainwreck CNN interview

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-approved-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theorist-goes-down-in-flames-during-trainwreck-cnn-interview/


And to link to and quote what Snopes posted about Phillips and VoteStand when this fake news story about millions of votes got started:

http://www.snopes.com/three-million-votes-in-presidential-election-cast-by-illegal-aliens/

We scoured at least a dozen such articles for evidence to support the claim, but found none. All of them pointed back to the same source: a pair of tweets by someone named Gregg Phillips, whose Twitter profile identifies him as the founder of VoteStand ("America's first online fraud reporting app&quot :

-snip-

Phillips offers no evidence whatsoever to back up the claim that he "verified" more than three million non-citizen votes. Nor does he divulge his data sources or methodology, much less explain how it was possible to "verify" three million fraudulent votes within five days of a national election. In point of fact, Phillips bluntly refuses to share this information with journalists, claiming it will be released "in open form to the American people":

-snip-

Phillips, who also founded the technology consulting firm Autogov and served as managing director of Newt Gingrich's Winning Our Future super PAC during the 2012 presidential campaign, is no stranger to voter fraud controversies. He was quoted in a 30 October 2013 Breitbart article (which described Phillips as a "voter integrity activist&quot characterizing Obamacare as "the biggest voter registration fraud scheme in the history of the world." Per the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), Obamacare health insurance exchange web sites provide voter registration services to customers. While some observers have complained that the exchanges are inadequate to the task of signing up new voters and have actually failed to register millions of eligible people, according to a 2014 MSNBC report, others, Gregg Phillips among them, argue the opposite — that Obamacare has opened the floodgates for millions to register illegally:

-snip-

Based on these past statements, it seems likely that Phillips' case that three million non-citizens voted in the past election is related to his claim that "illegals" are registering to vote via Obamacare. In the absence of supporting data, however, he has really made no case at all. The "three million non-citizens" figure may just as well have been plucked out of thin air.
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Trump just tweeted to praise Gregg Phillipps / VoteStand (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2017 OP
For those who didn't see CNN madaboutharry Jan 2017 #1
This dude. LisaL Jan 2017 #2
Thank you for the link. madaboutharry Jan 2017 #4
Now my crockpot is crying, deeply hurt. SAD. rzemanfl Jan 2017 #8
I watched. Cuomo made a blithering fool out of Phillips. It was great. lamp_shade Jan 2017 #3
The President is mentally ill C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #5
Just edited the OP to link to Snopes, and to Raw Story's article on the CNN interview highplainsdem Jan 2017 #6
Phillips has a history of conflicts of interest with both MS & TX state govts: highplainsdem Jan 2017 #7
+1 dalton99a Jan 2017 #9
all this voter fraud heaven05 Jan 2017 #10
It's always, "Me, me, me!" with that moron in the White House. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #11
Not so. He actually did release his methodology. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #12
Trump again goes with Breitbart lies, conspiracy theories on voter fraud for his policies. Sad! Fred Sanders Jan 2017 #13

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
2. This dude.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:20 AM
Jan 2017

"Gregg Phillips, the unlikely apparent source for President Trump's unsupported claim that 3 million or more "illegal voters" cost him the popular vote, says he might be changing his mind about releasing the names of those voters to everyone on the internet."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/25/he-claimed-there-were-3-million-illegal-voters-now-he-says-he-may-name-them.html

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
4. Thank you for the link.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:27 AM
Jan 2017

That was disturbing. This is all more evidence that the president is a conspiracy theorist who believes any crockpot idea that plugs into his narrative.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
10. all this voter fraud
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:21 AM
Jan 2017

obfuscation is b*lls*it, watch out!!! Something big is coming our way with the admin. their minions and the MSM trying to distract us. Out of control train around the bend barreling down on all of us. That's my CT on these EVIL people.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
11. It's always, "Me, me, me!" with that moron in the White House.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:40 AM
Jan 2017

Propaganda Minister Con Way was whining about just a hundred votes determining the Bush/Gore election, and that is how easy it is for illegal voters to steal an election.

As if in every election - from one end of this country to the other - we don't have thousands of local elections determined by small numbers of voters - mayors, councilpersons, commissioners, school boards, freakin' dog catchers even!

All those "losers" have no problem with illegal votes?

No - they don't, since they can't find any illegal voters!

The illogical assumptions of that moron are quite remarkable.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
12. Not so. He actually did release his methodology.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:43 AM
Jan 2017
Gregg Phillip's Super Air Tight Voter Fraud Methodology

1. Look at popular vote totals
2. See that Hillary Clinton won popular vote by nearly 3 million
3. ??????
4. Bingo---3 million illegal votes!


It's all so clear. Duh!
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