Posted on 10/18/2016 8:17:33 PM PDT by Mariner
Imagine voting on Nov. 8 under the watchful gaze of, say, a posse of poll watchers, assault-style rifles slung over their shoulders, “Make America Great Again” hats perched on their heads.
Sounds farfetched? Maybe in California. But in swing states such as Ohio and North Carolina, local officials are bracing as Donald Trump, his campaign sputtering, has called on his troops to deter what he claims is a “rigged” election. “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day,” he tweeted Monday, without a shred of evidence. “Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!”
“Whining,” President Barack Obama called Trump’s outburst, and it’s an apt description. But in a campaign rife with demagoguery, Trump’s sour grapes mark a new, and dangerous low.
Among other things, he has encouraged supporters to become self-appointed poll monitors, hinting that urban neighborhoods in particular might be prone to cheating. “Go down to certain areas,” he said at a rally last month in rural Pennsylvania, “and watch and study to make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times.”
In another country, talk like this would be sedition.
Trump knows his calls for vigilantism invite confrontation.
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, as researchers have found over and over. One study, done two years ago by a Loyola Law School professor who specializes in election administration, found just 31 credible claims in more than 1 billion ballots cast over the past 16 years. Because polling places are managed at the local level, “rigging” a national election is nearly impossible. That’s a truth Americans need to hear.
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We shouldn’t even post anything from the Bees. Sac Bee. Modesto Bee. Fresno Bee. They’re nothing but pimps for the Beast and liberalism in general.
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
The truth will make you free ...
They are getting desperate. They know Hillary is the real one in trouble.
The Establishment has a choice:
Continue down the road of voter fraud and media corruption and insert Hiltery into the presidency, or allow the voters to elect Trump fair and square.
A Hitlery admin will find an America ungovernable.
Every time I see this man’s face I want to vomit in his general direction.
It’s good entertainment.
Stop fighting voter id laws and cleaning voter roles if you don’t want rigged elections.
No voter fraud? Right.
At one time a lot of people bought into the notion there was no such thing as organized crime, either.
“Not a shred of evidence”, the defending attorney would say...
Some one needs to jam that right in the noses of the SacBee editorial board.
“Because polling places are managed at the local level, “rigging” a national election is nearly impossible.”
It’s not necessary to “rig” the election in every county in the country in order to “win” a national election through fraud.
“Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, as researchers have found over and over.”
Wonder if the “researchers” have investigated places where turnout is more than 100%?
Explain 1960 to us then.
Yep. Sounds great!
Did they ever?
Pot, meet Kettle.
Libs really are a joke. Always projecting. Their very real defects on people who have no evidence of same.
Hey Bee, Trump’s campaign is NOT SPUTTERING!!! STOP LYING, if that is at all possible for you!!!!!
Sorry, but the best I can conjure up for an image is the two New Black Panther militants intimidating voters.
Just imagine showing up at a polling place in Philadelphia, where “some guys” are wearing military looking garb, black berets and holding night sticks. They’d be arrested and charged with voter intimidation so fast it would make your head spin. /S
Exactly. I heard this on radio this morning and argue the same thing. All it takes is one big important district. Chicago!
Rigging elections is a slippery slope to violence.
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