Posted on 11/30/2016 5:25:16 AM PST by Kaslin
President-elect Donald J. Trump has been mocked for his tweeted claim that if it were not for illegal aliens voting, he might very well have won the popular as well as the electoral vote. Is his claim less credible than the one put forth by some of Trump’s opponents that Russian hackers got into voting machines that aren’t even connected to the Internet to switch votes around?
Trump puts the number at several million. Certainly the number is higher than one, considering the loosening of voting restrictions in recent years, from motor voter laws to same-day registration to handing out drivers licenses to illegal aliens. It is in no way implausible to picture an illegal alien getting his driver’s license and then marching to the polls to vote against a candidate who opposes such actions by government,
I would argue that in this context the efforts by Democrats to fight voting integrity efforts such as Voter ID requirements and purging the rolls of dead voters is designed to rig the system, as Trump might say, in their favor. As Investors Business Daily noted in 2014, dead voters casting votes, illegal aliens voting, and people being registered to vote in multiple states is a common and documented occurrence:
The fact that many people will do anything to get out of jury duty has exposed massive fraudulent voting in Frederick County, Md., that may have been going on for years…The Virginia Voters Alliance (VVA) cross-checked jury duty forms with individual voting records and found that hundreds of voters in that one Maryland county cast votes after reporting they were noncitizens. One in seven Maryland residents are noncitizens, so extrapolating the number of possibly illegal votes cast in recent elections over the entire state hints at possible election-changing fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Obama told all us dreamers we could vote and nothing bad would happen. Are you telling me we can’t trust the President?
A paper in the scholarly journal Electoral Studies suggests that as many as 2.8 million illegal aliens voted in the 2008 election:
“A paper in the scholarly journal Electoral Studies suggests that as many as 2.8 million illegal aliens voted in the 2008 election”
And given the immigration theme of the election and the increase in illegals over 8 years, it’s safe to assume that number was doubled in 2016.
That there are even enough illegal aliens in our country to sway an election, voting or not, is in and of itself ridiculous. It should not be a worry about whether they vote or not. But the left continues to push the envelope and has found a gold mine of votes based off of inviting millions into the USA with promises of health care, welfare, instant citizenship for offspring, and amnesty; and a demonstrated non/selective-enforcement of the law.
Up until this time, the GOP strategy has been to compete for their portion of illegal vote by promising a continuation of much of the same but with control of the border, and that has been nothing short of a deal with the devil.
The left pushes more and more restrictions on our 2nd Amendment rights, while refusing any kind of reasonable restriction on a trumped up "right to privacy" when it comes to abortion. Voting is a right where dilution of rightful votes harms every citizen's right, yet simple and necessary integrity efforts are fought by the left with language that colors the intent as some kind of Jim Crow effort.
Now, now, Kaslin, we all know the ONLY voter fraud that matters is Russian hacking that throws votes to Trump. Anything else is tinfoil hat nuttery.
Look for the effort to begin the clean up in regards to voter fraud.
Not that the media will pay attention, but the people do. Throughout this process Trump has been 2-3 moves ahead of his adversaries. After “possible, maybe, could be, maybe, possible irregularities” (but no evidence) with voting in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin... Trump launches his illegal voter comments. The Libs knee-jerk as trained (by Trump?) to scold and accuse him of “outrageous attacks on the integrity of the vote”... thereby at the same time undermining their own arguments in the three states. It’s a wonder to watch the media completely out maneuvered at every turn! They hate him but can’t get enough of him… oh the “rusty” irony!
The Left elected the tail of a tiger. I saw this happen during the Nomination. Smarmy ass dems walking in and changing to vote the Republican ticket. Arrogant sobs thought it was “operation chaos” in reverse. Trump would never win...thanks you smug lefties.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
That's not what he said. He said "...millions of people voting illegally...", which includes a lot more than just illegal aliens.
Think dead people voting, people voting multiple times, immigrants who are here legally voting, ballot box stuffing, etc.
PING!
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