Posted on 11/29/2016 4:14:17 AM PST by Fennie
Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter Monday night over a CNN report refuting his unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud on Election Day.
The report by CNN senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny, airing on "Anderson Cooper 360" earlier Monday, dismissed Trump's assertion that he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" as "blatant and baseless" and accused Trump of acting as a "sore winner." Zeleny also highlighted that the president-elect had yet to provide any "hard evidence" to back up his "staggering claims of fraud."
In response, Trump fired off a series of tweets aimed at CNN and Zeleny, some original and some retweets of his online supporters, including one user who apparently is a teenager.
"CNN is so embarrassed by their total (100%) support of Hillary Clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, that they don't know what to do," the president-elect said.
(Excerpt) Read more at polico.com ...
I was force-fed about an hour of CNN while sitting in a restaurant yesterday. Their conspiracy-driven coverage of Trump was truly, truly over-the-top. Even Oliver Stone would have been embarrassed.
Trump has successfully trolled them again.
The Left and the media have thrown down the gauntlet.
Come January the Trump DOJ is going to start PROVING to America how much voter fraud is going on out there.
OK RAT a-holes!
Then why is your national motto:
“Vote early and often”?
Hmmmmmmm?
[Chris Cuomo was talking about Trump’s claim this morning and he said “bullshit”. ]
Too bad Trump can’t get his FCC chair after CNN now....
Agree w/you 100%. At least in VA we ask for a picture ID to match you to the voter rolls. I believe the rule is, you fill out a ‘provisional ballot’ if you have no ID. True?
Politico...
Subtract only two counties, Los Angeles County CA and Cook County IL, and Trump wins the PV.
A sore winner - that’s funny!
Something tells me that the Trump folks actually have some hard data showing voter fraud. Right now they are baiting the media and the Democrats to deny voter fraud so that later Trump can show them wrong.
How many voters in California are illegal?
The libs don’t even seem to realize that they are slamming Trump for claiming fraud and backing democrat demands for recounts based on fraud
d’oh!
In Oregon you can register to vote online...supposedly the citizenship is checked later...yeah...right.
“”Imagine, demanding he PROVE millions of illegals voted””
Good point. Trump is putting the media and the Democrats into a corner. Trump is saying there are millions of illegal voters and the Leftists are demanding he prove it.
In a few weeks Trump will be able to prove it by making available the citizenship data held by the Feds to the States. Obama has refused to share the information.
What happens in Louisiana if you do not have a drivers license? What other ID is acceptable? What about those people who vote absentee? What ID does an absentee voter have to show in order to get an absentee ballot mailed to them?
The FED can help the States fight voter fraud by providing FED data on who is or is not a citizen in the USA.
The FEDS have a lot of data on immigrants and illegal entrants that they have not be willing to share with the States.
“”It works that way in my county in Florida too.””
Most voters in Florida follow the rules and bring their government issued picture id.
But Florida also accepts other forms of ID. Also, no ID is checked when voting by absentee ballot.
It is New York and Los Angeles counties: Hillary’s margin comes from those two places by about 3 million net democrat-racist-socialist votes. But obviously SFO added its 3/4 million reliable democrat “’votes” too..
Can the US learn from relatively poor Puerto Rico? It has much stricter voter ID laws...
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 11/08/2016 | Mark J. Perry
Posted on 11/9/2016, 5:56:07 AM by cll
With permission, I am sharing an email below that I received from an American friend who recently moved to Puerto Rico and participated in his first election there today:Relating to the discussion about voter ID laws on a recent CD post featuring a video by filmmaker Ami Horowitz that investigated the commonly held belief by liberals in America that voter ID laws are racist and discriminate against the poor and uneducated, let me describe my first experience voting in a Puerto Rican election today.
First, you have to obtain a voter ID card before you are allowed to vote in Puerto Rico. The voter ID is a laminated photo ID with holograms and a bar code. It is a completely separate ID from your driver’s license. To get a voter ID, you go to a voter registration office with your birth certificate and another photo ID or your passport, as well as proof of being a Puerto Rican resident (e.g. a lease, property deed, or maybe a utility bill). The voter registration office is staffed by three people, one from each of the three major political parties so that all can watch one another.
Once you have your voter ID card, you can legally vote at your designated voting place. Before voting, they inspect your voter ID card, check the holograms under a black-light to verify it’s legal, and they scan the bar code. Then they scan your hands with a black-light to make sure you haven’t already voted (see below), and then you go in to the voting area to get your ballot. Before you get a ballot though, they first find your name on a list of registered voters. On the list, your name has your picture next to it, and they match this photo with the photo on your voter ID card. Then they then dip your finger in black-light visible dye (hence the earlier black-light scan) and only then do they hand you your voting ballot. The voting process in Puerto Rico is much more stringent than anything even proposed in the US, and is also effective at pretty much eliminating voter fraud.
So, if there were any real truth to the narrative that “voter ID laws harm vulnerable groups like the poor, the uneducated, and minorities” you’d think you would see it here in Puerto Rico with all these time-consuming procedures to first obtain a voter ID and then be thoroughly checked each time before voting. The median household income of $18,626 in Puerto Rico was about 67% below the US median household income of nearly $56,000 in 2015 (Census data here, see chart above). The high school graduation rate in Puerto Rico is 60% (compared to 83.2% in the US) and only about 18.3% of residents have a post-secondary college degree (compared to 42% in the US). And yet Puerto Rico has the highest voter turnout in the Americas. From 1972 through 1984, island turnout exceeded 80% of the voting-age population, and at one point more than 95% were registered. Between 1972 and 2000, Puerto Rico averaged 79% turnout in its national elections; only eleven US states had voter turnouts higher than 60% during that time, while 14 were below 50%. In 2012, voter turnout in the US was only 53.6%.
I have yet to meet anyone in Puerto Rico who thinks that the voter registration rules here are a bad idea or an undue burden. In contrast, there seems be to universal agreement among Puerto Ricans that the process is well worth the extra trouble and time to ensure fair elections.
One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws are subtly racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video), or b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.
The real story: They are deathly afraid Trump as president will go after California motor voter illegal alien voting scheme.”””
Sane problem here in Nevada.
In just 10 California sanctuary counties plus sanctuary Chicago Clinton got 4 million more votes than Trump. If only 1/8 or the 12% indicted by some surveys were cast by illegal aliens that’s 500k fake votes right there. As always the media is lying.
I used my concealed carry permit as I.D. in Florida this past election. It was accepted without problem.
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