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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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...
Link to tweet
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/
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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":
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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" 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:
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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.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)this morning, who is Gregg Phillips?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)"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)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.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Unfit. Impeach. Remove.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)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)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)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!