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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Did the idiots at the Suckramento Bee actually WATCH the two tapes that were released..but hey, no voter fraud is going on nothing to see here moving on/sarc
What was that saying about a certain tree needing to be watered from time to time?
Whistling past the graveyard. The quickest route to violence is to ignore what is apparent to everyone — that millions of ballots will be cast next month by dead, illegal, and fictional voters.
Those 4 million aren't going to show up at the polls. Nosiree. That would be illegal.
found just 31 credible claims in more than 1 billion
Sorry, this is an impossible ratio.
Not buying it.
Exactly!!
Actually that was last week.
Apparently delayed reporting.
Last week was Indiana.
Yesterday’s Incident must have been created by the words of Obama, Hillary and Pocahontas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yZqsDUbKI
Rigging the election is a slippery slope to violence. Also, the only people perpetrating violence are the DNC/Soros goons firebombing Trump offices and disrupting his rallies.
Whenever the left gets caught in a nasty it blames the victims for fighting back.
This is a 100% banana republic election and Trump is 100% right to throw down the gauntlet. If they succeed in stealing this election (they won’t) they need to understand that this issue is never, ever, going away. The way this election is being conducted is the new Dread Scott decision of American politics. Get ready Democrats/GOPe because its a bumpy ride from here on out.
Yep. The last one was Zell Miller, and he turned out the lights when he left.
Remember all the concern when these NBP thugs were casting their "watchful gaze" on the Philadelphia polling place?
These liberal rag “newpapers” can all go up in flames for all I care.
They don’t care because their party is benefiting.
Wait a minute! I thought the Russians were trying to steal the election for Trump!
Yeah, sure it is.
No one will be arrested for those crimes, at least not as long as Comey is the FBI director. He should be all over this issue, but he isn’t.
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