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ck4829

(34,968 posts)
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 12:56 PM Mar 2021

I don't get it; doesn't making it harder to vote, seeing low turnout as an accomplishment...

Doesn't that put MORE power and leverage into the hands of a person or persons who would actually commit voter fraud?

If we were to have 100% turnout, if everyone who votes should, then they would cancel out illegitimate voters

AND if we were to have 100% turnout, and someone does and actually commits voter fraud, then an abnormality would appear, you can't get that as a diagnostic with 55% turnout, as we got in the 2016 election

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ck4829

(34,968 posts)
3. Preaching to the choir
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:03 PM
Mar 2021

I just want to put my pretend hat on for a second and say "Assuming rampant voter fraud is a thing"...

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I know ... just playing along ;)
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:15 PM
Mar 2021

The ONLY thing they've done that MAYBE actually COULD combat voter fraud is the ID requirement on mail-in ballots. All the rest is just 'making it more work/expensive to vote'.

Mad_Machine76

(24,353 posts)
5. They are not thinking about the long-term consequences of the situation they're potentially creating
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:20 PM
Mar 2021

but perhaps they feel secure in the knowledge that people, on balance, pay less attention to local races than national ones, so they don't think that people will ever turn them out of office. I pretty much guarantee that once the shoe is on the other foot, they will suddenly seem to care about these kind of undemocratic and power-centralizing laws.

Girard442

(6,058 posts)
6. The GOP has been DYING to find evidence of voter fraud over the past few years, and yet...
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:23 PM
Mar 2021

...nada. They couldn't even manufacture a vaguely convincing hoax.

Everybody over the age of ten knows it's the discourage-THOSE-voters strategy. Nobody is even trying very hard to pretend it's not anymore.

Shermann

(7,355 posts)
9. It was the greatest unprosecuted crime in US history
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 02:57 PM
Mar 2021

Seven million fraudulent votes, each and every one a felony charge. This was done brazenly despite advance knowledge of the crime and incredible scrutiny and oversight.

There were Biden/Harris vans driving around in broad daylight with stuffed ballot boxes.

There were poll workers blatantly putting cardboard over windows to conceal their nefarious activities.

And yet, Fox News never cracked the case...

Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
7. Why do you still think this has anything to do with voter fraud?
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:26 PM
Mar 2021

This is about keeping the "wrong" people from voting so that the radical RW Republiqans can stay in power.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that anything they say is in good faith.

sop

(9,943 posts)
8. Traditional political wisdom holds when fewer people vote, Republicans win.
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:35 PM
Mar 2021

That's what they're counting on, but recent trends have demonstrated the more Republicans try to suppress Democratic vote, the more Democrats turn out to vote. I think all these GOP suppression efforts will backfire.

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