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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Does the idiot who wrote this feel even a tiny gnawing bit of shame after the last 2 videotape releases about democrat vote fraud?
This editorial board needs to get out more.
Which side is committing all the violence?
Good grief these folks are subliminal.
Dear Lord, how I loathe the media/left.
Gog, I hope so.
Oh, the poor journ-o-listers at the Bee, clutching their pearls and getting the fantods and the vapors.
“Imagine voting on Nov. 8 under the watchful gaze of, say, a posse of poll watchers, assault-style rifles slung over their shoulders”
Isn’t that what happened in Philadelphia with the Black Panthers, the ones Eric Holder let go free?
The most lame-ass leftist propaganda rag in existence.
Don’t talk crazy, Jack........
The Left doesn’t want you to question the vote count, no matter how many deceased and ineligible votes are cast for hillary.
Democrats trained and paid people to commit violence.
Nor will there be.
The Bee is a left wing rag. When I arrived at Travis AFB in 1984, I took the Bee for a few months, then I dumped them. When they asked me why, I said I thought it was a pro communist paper. Nothing has changed.
Oh yes, it’s the talk that is the problem...my chapped ass!
If they cheat, they WILL be the ones that have the problem!!
They underestimate the depth of disgust about their tactics at their own peril.
This is serious stuff, they think it’s a game.
Sorry, this is an impossible ratio.
Not buying it.
What this clown showed is is that he is an incompetent fool. OR he's a liar and he's counting on you being fool enough to buy it.
Black Panthers with 2 x 4s is quite all right at poll booths, right?
So we shouldn’t talk about a rigged election being rigged? These commie ‘RATS on these so called “editorial boards” are starting to really tick me off. They need to do a reality check. When it comes to “elections”, America is now the world’s largest Banana Republic.
The Orwellian exercises of our MSM continues apace.
Election rigged, you say?!! That’s dangerous and irresponsible
talk that undermines confidence in our system.
Pay no attention to those DNC e-mails and the screwed Bernie Sanders behind that curtain.
Sell Miller was the last. Even he said so.
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