Posted on 09/07/2024 11:51:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The right-wing think tank has been pushing misinformation about voting into social media feeds. The Georgia secretary of state’s office called one video “a stunt.”
In July, two men went door to door at a sprawling apartment complex in Norcross, Ga., an Atlanta suburb that is a hub for the region’s fast-growing Latino population, asking residents if they were U.S. citizens and whether they were registered to vote.
Speaking in Spanish, often peeking from behind half-closed doors, seven people told the men that they were not citizens but that they were registered to vote.
Although the two men claimed to represent a company helping Latinos navigate the election system, they were actually working with the Heritage Foundation and carrying a hidden camera. Days later, the conservative think tank posted a video on the social media platform X containing some of the footage the men had captured, calling it “staggering” evidence that 14 percent of noncitizens in Georgia — which Heritage said extrapolated to more than 47,000 people — were registered to vote.
“Based on our findings,” the video concluded, “the integrity of the 2024 election is in great jeopardy.”
The video was reposted by Elon Musk, X’s owner, who called it “extremely disturbing.” It quickly went viral.
But under scrutiny, those claims do not hold up. Three of the seven people Heritage filmed later said they had misspoken. State investigators found no evidence that any of the seven people on the tape had ever registered to vote. A spokesman for Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, called the video “a stunt.”
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Bingo! There is even a federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting.
However, sadly, ironically and rather inconsistently the federal National Voter Registration Act allows voters to register without claiming proof of citizenship, a mere claim makes it so. Further, it appears fed law prohibits states from requiring citizenship when voting for fed offices.
The Biden/Harris portion of the Dem party\, of course, strongly resists any formal attempt to change that allowance.
We should remind any of our friends and family who may be "good democrat" of this fact.
ooops - “without providing proof of citizenship”>
Yes, by parroting,
"Non-citizens” cannot also be ‘voters’ in American politics. Anyone who argues otherwise deserves to have their cranium evacuated.
So the illegals lied to the interviewers.
Either at first, or the second time.
Lying illegals makes the person recording their lies deceptive.
See the logic?
“But under scrutiny, those claims do not hold up. Three of the seven people Heritage filmed later said they had misspoken. State investigators found no evidence that any of the seven people on the tape had ever registered to vote.”
Gee, there couldn’t be any chance that a person who committed a crime would suddenly change their story about it when a state investigator shows up to question them. And illegal immigrants would never use a different name than their own for any reason.
Sorry if I misunderstood the original. Have a nice weekend.
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If Raffensperger said it, I’d triple check it. The guy is a stupid, vain, power hungry snake.
Dear me, the fictitious NYT disagrees with this minority Chicagoan.
https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1832277906925420583
But they did not crumble. Do not forget evidence can be twisted to match the “facts” either side claim to be the absolute truth. If this was not so the world would have no need of lawyers.
I find it interesting that a Republican is a racist transphobic anti women liar until a denial of any election fraud drops from his or her lips. Then that person becomes the only Republican authority in existence.
State investigators found no evidence that any of the seven people on the tape had ever registered to vote.
A spokesman for Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, called the video “a stunt.”
Is there anybody who thinks that these three reasons that The NY Times gives makes the Heritage Foundation study, "deceptive"?
check out this redpill78 broadcast
I believe we are missing the part about who told them to say they had misspoken.
The New York Times complains about Heritage misleading people, but here they are deliberately misleading people themselves.
Yes, when they didn't know they were on a hidden camera, they told the truth. When the Lying New York Times made them aware they were on a hidden camera saying something that could cause them trouble, suddenly they say they "misspoke", and the lying New York Times presents it as a legitimate statement.
Raffensperger's collection of toadies that couldn't find the *MASSIVE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE OF VOTE FRAUD IN GEORGIA* can't find more vote fraud in Georgia?
As Upton Sinclair said: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on him not understanding it."
So far as i'm concerned, Georgia state officials are as corrupt as Arizona state officials, and that includes the GBI who framed the McMasters in the Ahmed Aubery case.
Did they verify that info?
The honesty truth is that if I were them, I’d probably say I was registered just to get them to go away... but there are other polls which have supported the same conclusions with far better evidence.
Wait. You believe the Lying New York Times? I immediately regard anything they say as lies.
Yes, the people who would get in trouble *CHANGED* their statement to one that would *NOT* get them into trouble once the New York Times informed them that their statement would get them into trouble.
And you think the Lying New York Times debunked the issue so easily?
I think the Lying New York Times (voice of the corrupt deep state) hasn't debunked anything. They just convinced these people to say otherwise by pointing out they had been filmed undercover.
The Undercover statement, when they didn't know they were being filmed, is the truthful one. The statement coaxed out of them by the Lying New York Times, is the false one.
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