Posted on 10/31/2016 8:16:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., penned an op-ed for The Washington Post equating loose rhetoric by a political opponent with legitimate concerns expressed by many about inadequate safeguards in our electoral system.
The op-ed is a classic sleight of hand, reducing a discussion about a topic as serious as election integrity to an ad hominem attack.
For the senator, such antics are necessary because the facts simply do not bear out the progressive position. The simple fact is that election fraud often goes undetected.
Overburdened prosecutors frequently assign vote fraud cases a low priority, particularly after an election is over. Moreover, many states lack the procedural tools necessary to detect fraud before or after it occurs.
Nonetheless, contrary to Warren’s fervent assertion that “there is literally no evidence—none, zip, zero—that widespread voter fraud is a factor in modern American elections,” Heritage Foundation research has documented literally hundreds of convictions in voter fraud cases.
And while many progressives, including the senator, quote a study purporting to indicate that voter fraud is vanishingly rare, that analysis is constricted to a single type of fraud, in-person impersonation fraud.
Many Forms of Fraud
Left out of that report are the countless other forms electoral fraud can take, from the casting of fraudulent absentee ballots, to illegal efforts by partisans to “assist” voters in filling out their ballots, to voters who habitually vote in multiple states.
The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database also documents massive conspiracies to buy votes, felons and noncitizens convicted of voting despite their ineligibility, and multiple elections overturned because of the sheer number of fraudulent ballots cast.
Indeed, the senator need look no further than her own state for proof that voter fraud exists. In 2012, former state Rep. Stephen “Stat” Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of voter fraud.
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The stuff that, as everybody knows, never happens. /sarc
PING!
Voter fraud.... Democratic life line
Pocahontas should stay in her teepee.
The amazing thing to me is how truly shallow and stupid our supposed “better” are. This woman is a professor at Harvard for gods sakes.
This was her mind in action? Astonishing.
She just has everything wrong.
The Daily (Smoke) Signal?
Lol.
Who clucked it better? Elizabeth Warren or ‘Arrested Development’
Boy, irony is lost on some people, I’m telling you. Here’s a woman who went around for years claiming to be something she was not until she was found out and now she’s complaining about fraud.
As Dennis Prager stated, the longer a person is in these indoctrination centers, the dumber they become. All out institutions were taken over by hard core Marxists.. By the time a student gets a Masters or PhD, they will have no Common Sense whatsoever. They will be as dumb as stumps (useful idiots) with no capability of “thinking critically”.
Warren is either ignorant or extremely evil (a Marxist). Hillary is extremely evil—all Marxists are. They think other people are just cattle to be herded and killed at her whim. She is a pathological liar.
The reality is as we have said from the begining here at FreeRepublic is that the gummint will never do anything to stop vote fraud until conservatives start to do it.
Non issue.
Has she ever gotten it right?
Doubtful.
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