As November approaches, we need to recognize that there are two kinds of fraud at issue. The first is voter fraud, and every research project done has determined that the problem is too minuscule to have the slightest impact on any election. The second is election fraud, in which a political party, virtually always the Republicans in recent decades, uses dishonest and often criminal means, to produce an undeserved victory. Here’s how Republicans are using lies about the first to employ the second.
Any time someone has to use James O’Keefe and one of his phoney sting videos to validate their argument, they don’t have one, which is exactly what Heritage Foundation flack Brian Darling did this Monday to justify the GOP’s voter suppression laws they’ve been passing across the country: Heritage Foundation ‘Expert’ Cannot Cite Any Examples Of Actual Voter Fraud:
In an interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown this morning, Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brian Darling argued for the importance of Florida-style voter suppression laws in order to stop potential voter fraud. But when pressed by Todd to identify any actual examples of voter fraud, Darling appeared stumped…
…The one example of the sort of fraud these strict voter ID laws allegedly aim to stop that Darling could site was conservative filmmaker and convicted law-breaker James O’Keefe. O’Keefe’s approach was to break a law intentionally to prove how easy it is to break a law and to then claim that the law is insufficient because he could break it. This strategy is similar to going into a convenience store, pretending to shoplift a candy bar, and citing that as evidence that the store needs to do a background check of every customer before they come into the store. And, as Darling concedes, even O’Keefe didn’t actually vote.
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Here’s the video:
The intent is also obvious, because most Republican controlled states that have passed these and done other things to make it difficult for Democrats to get an ID, such as closing DMVs in Democratic areas, but opening more in Republican, and cutting DMV hours in Democratic areas, but extending them in Republican. The only election fraud happen here is Republican attempts to disenfranchise legal voters.
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I was on Huffington Post and I made a comment that some teabagger felt necessary to try and debate me on. I always ask for sources because I would love to learn something new. I’m happy to read and do research.
Anyway, this idiot cited several James O’Keefe propaganda films as proof. As soon as I pointed out the video has been thoroughly debunked they would offer another debunked video. After I proved them wrong numerous times they still stuck with their argument saying that liberals commit so much fraud that they win elections.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother but I always hope there is someone like me out there looking at the posts and figuring out that the teabaggers are a pack of liars. These idiots can’t be ignored because then they start winning over the mindless voters who can’t think for themselves.
I really hope Walker loses today. Democrats, unions, etc. have done a very good job mobilizing and getting the message out. It would be a shame to see that crook “win.”
Kevin, I commented today that no mapper how thoroughly a GOP lie is debunked, they keep repeating it.
Kevin, they rely on lies to win and have the money to buy whatever it takes. No amount of reasoning seems to work on anyone who has drunk their Kool-aid. I have tried with some of my Republican friends, they all think Fox news is the gospel.
They have no choice. If they told the truth, they’d lose every election.
The DOJ investigated voter fraud, I believe at the behest of the Bush administration, and found that there was negigible voter fraud. Very interesting that this Republican/Teabagger yahoo cited James O’Keefe. I wonder what he would have said about the two recent cases of voter fraud involving sitting Republican/Teabaggers? One was convicted and the other is under investigation.
Another case of projection? It seems that the Republican/Teabaggers have absolutely no morals — they will cheat, steal, lie and commit both voter and electoral fraud to get their goal, a Republican/Teabagger régime.
You are correct, Lynn. It was Bush’s DOJ and they wanted ti find fraud.
I’d call it evasion. There isn’t enough to project.
Republicans ARE voter fraud!
They certainly ARE election fraud.
I wonder if there is any voter fraud involved in Walker’s win yesterday…
Probably not, but since Republicans were counting most votes, there was probably some election fraud.
Guaranteed some election faud since some people reported receiving a robo call telling them that if they signed the recall petition, they didn’t have to vote — that was their vote.
I agree, but I don’t think it was enough to have changed the result.