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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA man who Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in three states:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A man who President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has learned.Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states. He voted only in Alabama in November, records show.
In a post earlier this month, Phillips described "an amazing effort" by volunteers tied to True the Vote, an organization whose board he sits on, who he said found "thousands of duplicate records and registrations of dead people."
Trump has made an issue of people who are registered to vote in more than one state, using it as one of the bedrocks of his overall contention that voter fraud is rampant in the U.S. and that voting by 3 to 5 million immigrants illegally in the country cost him the popular vote in November.
The AP found that Phillips was registered in Alabama and Texas under the name Gregg Allen Phillips, with the identical Social Security number. Mississippi records list him under the name Gregg A. Phillips, and that record includes the final four digits of Phillips' Social Security number, his correct date of birth and a prior address matching one once attached to Gregg Allen Phillips. He has lived in all three states.
https://apnews.com/80497cfb5f054c9b8c9e0f8f5ca30a62
braddy
(3,585 posts)people to stay current.
redwitch
(14,947 posts)you are good. Honestly people move all the time and I don't think they call the board of elections to have their names removed.
braddy
(3,585 posts)is making an argument for tighter laws on the system of voting.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)his allegations of voter fraud.
braddy
(3,585 posts)there isn't much of a system of control in place.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)You gotta have special talents to star in "Gubmint Apprentice".
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)angry at dt for thinking this guy was qualified. I'm thinking if you're such an expert, you'd better be squeaky clean. But not in this new world.
SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)What better way to become an expert, than to actually do it? You can read and study all day, but unless you get out there and actually get 'hands-on', it's all theory!
Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Look like votes in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi are likely fraudulent.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Loved seeing this news about multiple state registrations
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Trump's argument has been that, as someone who learned to game the tax system, he's the perfect person to fix it...
3catwoman3
(24,044 posts)...someone with experience relevant to the job to which he has been appointed.