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In reply to the discussion: Lying about illegal voting is cover for election manipulation [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)even more voter suppression.
I get what you're saying about a difference being that the winner of the election is the one making the claim this time and I agree it makes a difference in some ways.
The more I think back to the Dornan/Sanchez election though, the more I see certain similarities here.
One example is the bogus claims that Dornan made then, even providing some names to the LA Times and stating these people committed voter fraud. The LA Times investigated those and found that for the most part these were people with similar names (mostly Latino) and they were eligible to vote.
With Crosscheck, they've taken the same damn idea and process, but they've now taken it across state lines to a national level and they managed to get some states to actually purge these legal voters. This despite it being illegal to purge them and despite the LA TImes having exposed it back in the 90s and publications like Rolling Stone exposing how Crosscheck is doing it now.