Posted on 02/04/2020 2:58:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A viral claim by a conservative activist group that voter registration numbers in Iowa are suspiciously large ahead of the first U.S. presidential nominating contest on Monday is false, a senior state government official said, and called on the group to end its “misinformation campaign.”
Iowa’s Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, said the claim by Washington D.C.-based group Judicial Watch that total registration numbers for caucuses in eight Iowa counties were larger than the eligible voter population had been disproven by official data.
“It’s unfortunate this organization continues to put out inaccurate data regarding voter registration, and it’s especially disconcerting they chose the day of the Iowa Caucus to do this,” Pate said in a news release posted on Twitter, criticizing their data as flawed.
“They should stop this misinformation campaign immediately.”
Judicial Watch’s Facebook post on Monday garnered 10,000 shares and, on Twitter, a tweet on Sunday from conservative student group Turning Point USA’s president Charlie Kirk sharing the same information has been retweeted more than 40,000 times.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called Pate’s denial of its claim “shameful.”
“It is shameful that the secretary state of Iowa would mislead Iowans and Americans about the accuracy of the state’s registration rolls,” he said in a tweet.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Thanks for posting this.
Within the last year, Judicial Watch has won a half dozen court cases against states or counties with more registered voters than the Census Bureau population.
Judicial Watch is forcing communities all over the country to obey federal voting laws by cleaning up their voter rolls before the 2020 election.
I am going to post the actual Judicial Watch link for this story in a new thread.
The fix is in... and now it’s multi-level.
Tech firm started by Clinton campaign veterans is linked to Iowa caucus reporting debacle
And multi-state.
A real news agency that publishes genuine news stories might have published the actual claim, and the demographic information to allow its readers to determine for themselves if the claim were true.
A single sentence such as “In county X there are Y registered voters and census data says there are Z adult residents” would be enough for readers to decide for themselves.
Instead, we get a dozen or more paragraphs quoting state officials saying its unfortunate that citizens are allowed to make statements questioning their government, especially on days like election day, and then bemoaning the fact that information not deemed fit for public consumption by the official news media can still sneak out on Twitter and Facebook.
I still don’t know whether the claim is true, but I trust Judicial Watch a lot more than our government or the press.
Gropin’ Joe can come in fourth and claim victory. ‘It was rigged’.
Made a donation to Judicial Watch yesterday.
The Clinton connection to the Democrat debacle is priceless......
Russia!!
What if Trump won the DEMOCRATS IOWA CAUCUS???
Illinois to Iowa: “Let us take over your first primary status and show you how it’s really done, you pikers”.
This whole Dem primary is tainted and Trump is going to have a field day with it.
<><> The buzz is the internal fighting over the Dems handling of impeachment is fierce;
<><> and now Iowa.
The Clinton's connection to Iowa's caucus snafu is icing on the cake.
I make two political donations each month...
One to Free Republic, and one to JW.
I may start to donate to “NewsBusters.”
The Mainstream News organizations are totally out of control.
“NewsBusters” flags the “Fake News” in the MSM every day.
That tells me the major news organizations are working hand-in-glove with the Democrat Party concerning the Caucus Fiasco.
Re: I still don’t know whether the claim is true, but I trust Judicial Watch a lot more than our government or the press.
I have posted the Judicial Watch article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3813466/posts
And doing their level best to ensure no questions are asked about any other state.
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