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I have been engaging in keyboard warfare about ICE and my response is that the immigration effort is another facet of voter suppressionthe 2020 strategy.
That led me to the following easy-to-Google PBS article which provides facts and reality in contrast to Republican hysteria. Im saving it for future reference.
By the Numbers: Voter Fraud
October 18, 2016
By Jenna Goff and Joan Greve
Washington Week Fellows
With just over three weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump has ramped up his claims that the election is "rigged" against him. He blasted Republican leaders on Twitter on Monday, calling them "so naive" and saying: "Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
What is the truth behind Trumps declarations? We look at the numbers behind voting fraud in America.
Percentage of Americans who think that the election could be stolen from Trump: 41%
(73% of Republicans and 17% of Democrats)
Number of voter fraud cases since 2000: 44 cases out of 1 billion votes cast
(8 of which involve more than one ballot affected)
Rate of voter fraud: 0.0000044%
Number of states with active voter ID laws: 32
Number of laws passed to tighten voting laws since 2001: Over 1,000
2012 voter turnout: 129,085,403
Approximate number of 2012 voter fraud cases: 4
Projected number of 2016 voter fraud cases based on 2012 turnout: 4
Your odds of getting struck by lightning (twice!) are more likely than election fraud at: 1 in 9 million
And youre much more likely to win an Olympic gold medal, with odds of: 1 in 662,000
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Fair elections means they would lose.
live love laugh
(13,079 posts)addressing the issue? We keep running campaigns and elections as if everything is normal then are surprised by bad outcomes.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)bluestarone
(16,859 posts)It's up to us to make sure we have MONITORS every where! BE READY!