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Check out the latest article by investigative reporter and statistician Greg Palast to learn how drumpf won.
hint: It wasn't because more people voted for him
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
This will only get worse by 2026 if we don't find a way to stop it.
gab13by13
(32,278 posts)from voting by mail to voting in person.
Hopefully a bomb threat won't be called in to my polling place.
SnoopDog
(2,695 posts)Republicans will remove you from the voter rolls, then you show up to vote, but then they say you are not registered. They give you a provisional ballot but they never count it.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)will likely get purged unless they notify the election board where they are moving from. Heck, I've been purged at least 4 times when I moved an registered in new district. In my rube red state, it takes 7 years of not voting to be considered for removal and they get at least one mailing sent to the voters address (of course, they've likely moved).
Now, if Palast can find a few examples of people who showed up at the polls but were told they weren't registered, he might have a convincing argument.
We keep looking for something to explain trump winning, I get it. But we just didn't convince enough voters. Of course, many of them would have voted for Hitler anyway.
SnoopDog
(2,695 posts)Palast has more than examples of these purges - he has names and addresses and has actually personally talked to these people. These purges were mostly all Dems and were people of color, students, and young people. They arbitrarily knocked off all people named 'jose gonzolas' for example .
Trump only 'won' because millions of Dem voters were purged from the rolls.
So all of your assertions are incorrect.
But, where was the Dem leadership when all these purges were being executed? No where to be found...
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,162 posts)Never had a problem, we don't use mail, we use county drop box and in this last election Georgia got rid of 90% of them in guess which area's???
But they need to be publishing the amount of spoiled votes and non counted votes and quit forcing people to vote on your time voting day and give them a week or two and let them vote on their time.
I knew in my heart of heart TFG didn't win. ph-uck we can not have nice things in this country
Wiz Imp
(9,974 posts)By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed vigilante voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
1,216,000 provisional ballots were rejected, not counted.
3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
Those numbers would seem to clearly prove his claim that Trump didn't win. Only one problem. He doesn't present one shred of evidence for even one of those numbers. Provide actual data that shows those numbers are true and accurate then we finally have something that we can fight the illegitimacy of the election with. Until then, it just comes across as yet another BS Conspiracy Theory.