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Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/republicans-reprise-unfounded-claims-of-widespread-election-interference.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.9KyV.370UF8fQ-_cW&smid=url-share
Prominent conservatives, including the president, sounded familiar alarms about voter suppression and other efforts to manipulate the vote on Election Day, without presenting evidence.
As voters went to the polls, prominent conservatives latched onto glitches and other problems at polling stations to claim without presenting evidence that the results were being rigged.
Election machines briefly went down in Cumberland County, N.J., a state where the governors race is seen as a bellwether of President Trumps second term. The problem was quickly resolved and voting resumed, according to an election commission official reached by telephone. A series of bomb threats in the state a reprise of threats in several states in last years presidential election also turned out to be a hoax.
In Pennsylvania, independent voters were left off the voter rolls for state judicial and municipal races in Chester County, a swing district with a recent history of election disinformation. The county announced that it had replaced the voter rolls, and voting hours were extended as local officials vowed that all ballots submitted by those who chose to cast them in person would be counted.
The problems were enough for Jack Posobiec, the conservative podcaster, to make a sweeping claim of intentional interference across multiple states.
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(196,490 posts)Think about the original parameters of voting.
White make land owners and some prominent vendors in cities. I couldnt have voted until 2019 as I didnt own land.
No women.
You had to travel to vote. Across a county to the county seat was much of a day.