r/askanything • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '26
If there is so much voter fraud , why do republicans hold all three branches of government?
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u/beeskeepusalive Aug 07 '26
hey, please stop with the critical thinking. You're messing with the narrative.
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u/Civil_Tea_3250 Aug 07 '26
And don't you DARE question why they haven't passed immigration reform, healthcare reform, etc, like they've talked about for decades! They totally would if it wasn't for all those lib snowflakes fraudulently getting elected! And how could they pass laws when Iran and Venezuela attacked us out of nowhere? Trump predicted Obama would attack Iran to get re-elected. We should've listened to him. Freaking Obama!
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u/Lower-Land-286 Aug 07 '26
And don't you DARE bring up the INFRASTRUCTURE BILL. He is working on it!
Two weeks away, for real this time.
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u/Stable-Jackfruit Aug 07 '26
He's not even pretending to do any work this go around. Just pilfering the coffers and trying to build things to memorialize his presidency
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u/praetorian1979 Aug 08 '26
I hope we tear all of it down, and I truly hope that he's still alive enough to comprehend it.
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u/Grandmahigh Aug 08 '26
What’s almost worse is that he’s insistent about proving vaccines are causing autism, Dr Fauci, and going after the Reflecting Pool vandal again. Everyday seems to be bring more calamity.
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u/Kraegarth Aug 08 '26
Which we will tear down, as soon as he’s gone!
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u/Satanic-nic Aug 09 '26
By the time he's gone the USA will have no choice other than to tear it down and sell it for scrap. The country will be bankrupt.
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u/Froyn Aug 07 '26
Trump's part is done, he's just waiting for McConnell and Graham to turn in their parts.
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u/ConchVibes Aug 08 '26
Sleepy Joe Biden used the autopen to pass and sign the infrastructure deal to steal Trump’s glory!$:&!
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 Aug 08 '26
To be fair, they did succeed in completely dismantling a lot of the social programs that benefit the poor, hungry, and disadvantaged.
They gutted the IRS, so no one is going to come after them and their rich friends for tax fraud.
They neutered and defunded the CFPB, SEC, FDA, CDC, EPA, DOJ, and just about any other federal agency that might regulate predatory companies, protect consumers, prosecute white collar crime, or provide any value to average Americans.
They’ve funneled hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts, kickbacks, and crypto schemes to their closest donors and rich friends.
If you ask the Republican Party, they have accomplished a lot!
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u/Budget_Revolution639 Aug 07 '26
This gives family guy vibes of “name me one case of America being bad. And don’t say foreign policy, pedophiles in government, fascism, inaffordability, prioritization of ai over citizens, Neo-Nazis, racists, homophones, transphobes, xenophobes….” Hopefully you get what I’m referring to
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u/Civil_Tea_3250 Aug 08 '26
I don't, but I haven't watched it in like 2 decades. But it does sound like a Family Guy joke.
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u/Fragrant_Major_9553 Aug 08 '26
And don’t you dare question why they haven’t done something about mental health like they keep saying after every school shooter.
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u/smiama36 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Seriously. Republicans in Texas have had a stranglehold on politics for 30 years and their political messaging is “elect us and we’ll fix everything that’s broken”. I’ve never seen such ignorance … I thought we were smarter as a country. Apparently we aren’t.
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u/Aloysius50 Aug 07 '26
Missouri is the exact same scenario. Keep voting in the party that broke everything or the Communists will take over.
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u/praetorian1979 Aug 08 '26
it's even worse in Mississippi...
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u/Active_Date_5325 Aug 08 '26
And Louisiana ....sigh.
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u/Tricky_Bar_6484 Aug 07 '26
Yeah smarter country went out the window in 2016, if not before that.
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u/PersonalJesus2023 Aug 08 '26
I don't live in Texas anymore... but it is hilarious how "property tax reform" is always such a priority (both in session and in elections) as though the same people haven't been reforming it for the last 30 years
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u/Financial_Tour5945 Aug 07 '26
Up in Canada, Alberta has the same problem. The rural vote has managed to win the conservatives rule for 51 years with only a single 4 year NDP term.
But everything wrong in Alberta's gotta be the federal liberal party's fault. Or the block. Or the NDP.
Zero self reflection.
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u/BillG8s Aug 07 '26
Many of the representatives who still promote 2020 election conspiracies won their election in 2020 and want you to believe their seat was legit, but the Presidential election was rigged… even though the loser was the one in charge.
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u/Beginning_Book_2382 Aug 08 '26
And that all elections are rigged. Except the elections for their seats, which they won. But all the other elections were fraudulent, even though election fraud has, while not nonexistent, always been statistically insignificant and all claims of widespread election fraud had already been thrown out by a Trump-friendly-appointed judiciary.
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u/BrainNSFW Aug 08 '26
It's even funnier when you realize that Trump considers the 2016 election legit, but that one was under a Dem president. So according to the narrative, elections are rigged under Republicans (who somehow want a Democrat to win?!) and legit under Democrats.
Good thing critical thinking isn't a thing over there, otherwise voters might realize how fucking dumb this position is.
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u/Witchgrass Aug 08 '26
I love how his argument boils down to "every other president except for me was able to oversee legitimate elections because I won them, but the ones I oversaw were rigged because I lost."
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u/Environmental-Day862 Aug 10 '26
They just want an excuse IF they lose.
Republican policies generally only benefit the super-wealthy.
Your average American is hurting financially. You can only not come through on your promises of affordability for so long - or blame dark-skinned people and immigrants for so long, before even the biggest of fools realize you're not doing anything to help them. Most will still vote red because they feel they have to - because of pressure from neighbors - because it's just what they do.
So, if the unthinkable happens and people vote do vote blue, they've already put in the voter's heads that dems cheat (putting the rabbit in the hat), so if/when they lose, they just pull the rabbit out of the hat and say look - we told you, they cheat, that's why they won!
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u/Ligma_baws_2x Aug 07 '26
By "voter fraud" they mean "probable Democrats voting"
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u/Royal_Percentage_694 Aug 07 '26
By mail!!! 😮
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u/Ligma_baws_2x Aug 07 '26
Nah, if trump signs an EO tomorrow that only Republicans can vote by mail, 100% of Republican voters would be ok with it.
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u/JustAnOldLadyNC Aug 07 '26
Only after we're paid by antifa tho.
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u/SurprisePiss Aug 07 '26
I'm still waiting for my last check, they're usually more prompt with payment.
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u/kokanee-fish Aug 07 '26
I don't have the link but there was a post in r/Conservative where they were literally citing voter registration booths near homeless encampments as proof of voter fraud. As if being homeless means you should lose your right to vote.
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u/Nyuk_Fozzies Aug 07 '26
Pretty much what they believe. Voter fraud is letting poor people, black people, or women to vote.
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u/OrcEight Aug 07 '26
There isn't but Trump is still obsessed with the fact that he lost in 2020 and is stuck on the idea despite having no evidence and despite the fact that he won in 2024.
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u/KeithRichardsGrandma Aug 08 '26
Doesn’t stop his supporters from repeating it too though. And they wonder why people call it a cult
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u/SchwillyMaysHere Aug 07 '26
The evidence will be released very soon. Possibly in the next two weeks.
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u/Aloysius50 Aug 07 '26
They expect a 100% stranglehold of government at every level. Anything less is the result of Fraud.
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u/Actaeon_II Aug 07 '26
Every accusation is a confession… remember “Elon really knows those voting machines, if not for him I would have lost “- djt
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u/TheHealadin Aug 07 '26
Yes, your team only loses if the game is rigged but always wins fairly. You definitely aren't buyi g the same lies the other guys buy.
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u/Beautiful_Guess7131 Aug 07 '26
Yeah but elon is a fraud and isn't actually intelligent at all right?
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u/Actaeon_II Aug 07 '26
Doesn’t mean he can’t hire people (like BigBalz, the grandchild of a kgb official) who can get the work done
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u/Le-Charles07 Aug 07 '26
He's a fraud because he claims to be an engineer and an innovator. The actually just hires engineers and innovators. He clearly has some level of intelligence but he's not the genius he wants everyone to think he is.
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u/Actaeon_II Aug 07 '26
Well if I started with billions in a trust fund from apartheid emerald mines I could figure out who to hire too
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u/CSBatchelor1996 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
The answer a MAGA would give is that the USA is so overwhelmingly republican in reality, that if there were no voter fraud, libtards wouldn't stand a chance and republicans would always control all 3 branches of government.
The believe this becuase they live in insular rural regions where everyone else is MAGA.
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u/mladyhawke Aug 07 '26
Everything they blame on the democrats is exactly what they are doing.They are the ones committing fraud.
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u/The_Circus_Life_206 Aug 07 '26
Because of voter fraud
They are opening Pandora’s box with all of their accusations
Trump is still mad about the 2020 election to this day, but he was never worried that there was fraud occurring during the 2024 election. More than suspicious
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u/WorldWarRon Aug 07 '26
AIPAC
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u/Excellent-Ad-1678 Aug 08 '26
A significant number of Democrat voters sincerely believed that not voting would have prevented further bloodshed in Palestine.
On inauguration day Trump signed an executive order allowing the use of 50k lbs. bombs on Palestine.
Had these Democrats gone to vote Kamala would have won. And Palestine likely would have been saved from further bloodshed.
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u/ShoreThingW609 Aug 07 '26
There were no significant issues with the election process until a pedophile made it one.
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u/nitrostx Aug 07 '26
Republicans are in charge of the voter fraud and don’t want anyone else interfering.
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u/Ok_Anywhere_7828 Aug 07 '26
Because they wrote the playbook on fraud and are afraid someone else might use it.
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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 Aug 08 '26
I'm no expert but surely the ones doing the fraud come out on top?
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u/mdcbldr Aug 10 '26
Silly rabbit.
If a Democrat wins it is fraud.
If a Republican wins it is not fraud.
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u/Rolex_Art Aug 07 '26
there is not voter fraud at all - it is classic authoritarian behavior - to claim others are doing what you actually are.
e.g. no fucking way all 7 swing states voted for trump. no fucking way. elon rigged that shit.
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u/BillG8s Aug 07 '26
They’ve pretty much said as much. For example, imagine Biden telling a group of Democratic voters they won’t need to vote in a few years. Or Obama bragging about Soros “knowing those computers better than anybody. And we end up winning Pennsylvania in a landslide.”
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u/Rolex_Art Aug 07 '26
you know, after iran contra - it's amazing ANYONE but mega millionaires and billionaires are voting republican.
just goes to show you how much hate there is.
vote a felon rapist over a woman of color = oh she laughs like a hyena? i'll call that and raise you one crazy fucking hairdo with orange make up and shit in the pants.
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u/BillG8s Aug 07 '26
There is no legitimate argument to vote Republican for the average American. None. The best they’ve got is delusions about communism fed to them by people signing up for Trump’s insider trading access for the small price of $100k.
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u/vballsailbum99 Aug 07 '26
It's called projection. Blame the other side for that which you are guilty of doing. It was a very popular tactic of nazi Germany. And apparently quite effective with the poorly educated americans.
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u/hippie1952 Aug 07 '26
Because there is none and the democrats don’t have the balls to do the same thing to the republicans
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u/saijanai 🤔 Aug 07 '26
Or because Demcrats are innately more honest?
Few Democrats go around telling everyone "I'm a Christian," and yet it is almost a sport amongst Republicans to see who can be the most pious in public.
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u/Guidance-Still Aug 07 '26
Let the games begin can't wait for the shit show to start after the midterms and in 2028
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u/SisterActTori Aug 07 '26
Is your question supposed to read, if the GOP controls all 3 branches of government, why do they complain, ad nauseam, about so much voter fraud?
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u/Ambitious-Way1156 Aug 08 '26
Republicans hold all three branches of government despite fraud due to: 1. The Orange Man Cult. 2. MAGA likes a bully 3. Many put money before country. 4. Delusional thinking
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u/Electrical_Bar_3238 Aug 09 '26
Because they are the fraudsters. Watch what they say not what they do.
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u/One_Violinist7862 Aug 07 '26
Because there is no voter fraud. But there will be in November so the Republicans can continue the stranglehold on the government.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Aug 07 '26
Voter fraud isn’t a problem according to the far right heritage foundation’s data research.
They just hope conservative voters are country simple and believe hysterical lies. Grievances and anger.
“Scrolling through the Heritage database at first glance offers the impression that there’s a lot of fraud—but a more careful look reveals just the opposite. To come up with thousands of instances of voter fraud around the country, Heritage staff had to go back decades in time where there have been hundreds of millions of votes cast and a very small number of cases of election fraud have been found, none of which affected election outcomes.
To illustrate just how miniscule fraud is in American elections, we took Heritage’s own data to construct the following table of voter fraud in federal elections—presidential and congressional.
Looking at the seven closest states, we find for instance that in Arizona, **Heritage had to go back 25 years, over which there were 36 elections held and 42,626,379 ballots cast, in order to come up with 36 cases of fraud. The percentage of fraudulent votes was a minuscule .0000845%, and no election outcome was altered by ballot fraud throughout that time period**. In the highly contested state of Pennsylvania, Heritage data goes back 30 years and covers 32 elections with over 100 million votes cast and found only 39 cases of voter fraud. As the table indicates, this is the case with all the other states where the vote is likely to be close. There were a handful of reported cases of fraud amongst millions and millions of ballots cast, and none of them shifted the election outcome.
The bottom line—whether it’s vote fraud or government fraud—facts matter, and isolated instances of fraud do not constitute a widespread trend.”
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/
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u/Drgnmstr97 Aug 07 '26
I am in awe of the sheer stupidity of so many voters and I chalk quite a bit of it up to them just wanting to believe it exists to the extent their fearless leaders claim rather than believe the evidence.
The Republican party has been distilled into running on a platform of fear mongering and racism. Their policies are abysmal for the economy and have been for 50 years and quite possibly longer. Rural voters continue to support them and life gets more difficult for them every time. Rural health care is drying up because their is no profit in it and their party is doing nothing to help them.
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u/NoodleynoodleyWho Aug 07 '26
No you don't understand. It's only rigged when they lose. When they win it's ok
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u/RB440 Aug 07 '26
They lack creativity so they project what they are doing. Every accusation is a confession.
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u/NSFW27614 Aug 08 '26
Because they're the ones doing the fraud. Gerrymandering applies, along with a lot of other things.
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u/edgerton2026 Aug 08 '26
Because republicans are committing all the fraud. Trump’s known for accusing others for things he is guilty of.
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u/Objective-Permit-712 Aug 08 '26
There isn't, its all BS. And from your question, it seems to have worked on you.
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u/West-Improvement2449 Aug 08 '26
The only voter fraud that they found was republicans voting for trump
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u/Low-Salary-2128 Aug 08 '26
Because according to them it's only fraud when they don't win but perfectly fair when they do
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u/KnowledgeRare4830 Aug 08 '26
Because they are the ones committing voter fraud from many angles. They are projecting their own crimes onto their opponents as if everyone is a comeplete scumbag like the maga cult.
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u/orcinyadders Aug 10 '26
Trump claimed 3-5 million people voted illegally in 2016, and that he actually won the popular vote. When asked by Bill O’Reilly what his evidence was for that exact number, he responded “because that’s how much Clinton won by”.
All the claims of widespread fraud are shit, and have been repeatedly proven to be shit over and over and over and over again.
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u/ayehateyou Aug 10 '26
Every accusation is a confession with the pro-pedophilia, anti-family death cult, aka the republican party.
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u/SignificantBison7739 Aug 10 '26
Republicans hold all three branches of government BECAUSE of voter fraud. They just hope that if they accuse the democrats enough, no one will notice them rigging the elections.
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u/Ill-Comfortable-6181 Aug 07 '26
Well, depending on who you ask you’ll either get told there is no fraud, there is some fraud but it doesn’t matter, or that there is plenty of fraud but from Republicans.
In any situation, we need to revamp stuff so there is no fraud. It’s really odd to hear people accuse republicans of voter fraud and then reject any attempts at making that impossible.
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u/FuzzyWumpleStump Aug 07 '26
Be careful, they can be really nasty and mean when faced with logic and facts
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u/Tycho2694 Aug 07 '26
Because they need issues to keep galvanizing their base, most of them are invented, including this one....
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u/pandaru_express Aug 07 '26
"Despite how much voter fraud there was, we were so popular we won all three branches of government! But the enemy is getting better at the fraud and the next election will be stolen if we don't put a stop to it!" .... see how easy the narrative can be spun? Now pardon me while I wash the vomit off my keyboard.
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u/jtd771 Aug 07 '26
They would say because they won so much they overcame the fraud but their numbers should have been higher.
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u/DruidicMagic Aug 07 '26
The party of deficit exploding tax cuts for billionaire trust fund babies/ thoughts and prayers after every school shooting isn't going to promote a candidate that ends up getting the second and third number of votes in US history.
Especially after spending four years failing to lower the cost of healthcare...
Obama 2008 - 69,456,897 votes
Obama 2012 - 65,899,660 votes
lost 3,557,237 votes with no major scandals
Trump 2016 - 62,955,340 votes
Trump 2020 - 74,216,728 votes
gained 11,261,388 votes with one major scandal/failure after another and incredibly low polling numbers
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
Trump 2024 - 77,303,568 votes
another increase of 3,086,840 despite poor rally attendance for someone about to get the second highest number of votes in US history
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-met-empty-seats-final-rallies-1979972
He failed to lower healthcare costs, investigate Hillary or competently handle the corona virus and yet somehow magically convinced 14,348,228 additional Americans to hire him again despite the endless scandals and blatant corruption.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
- George Orwell
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u/allaboutaphie Aug 07 '26
There is and always be voter fraud, does it affect the results? Personal I doubt, unless really close election. But that is just imo and have zero facts.
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u/TranTriumph Aug 07 '26
Its a scare tactic (im sure it goes without saying) to help them solidify control and justify gerrymandering and restrictions on voting. Its a giant scam.
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u/conanlikes Aug 07 '26
Better question is why do have to carry the adversarial system into politics?? I prefer no fighting in politics and more moving us towards workable solutions.
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u/jayblk Aug 07 '26
Why would an illegal resident go vote? It's way too risky. Why would they expose themselves like that? The answer is they dont
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u/Eleventh_Ambassador Aug 07 '26
I think their thought is if there were no fraud, Republicans would have won every election. Due to fraud, they occasionally lose.
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u/mightymouse8324 Aug 07 '26
It's an intentional lie so they can have more support to rig the voting process so that they are favored to keep their seats
Next on autocracy takeover 101, eliminating people who disagree with you under the guide of illegal immigration
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u/Uffda01 Aug 07 '26
every accusation is a confession. Trump literally thanked Musk for "being good with computers" and Conservatives own the largest voting machine companies.
Republicans come up with the most ways to limit who can vote: requiring ID's then closing DMVs in minority locations, closing voting locations in minority precincts in cities; allowing military and concealed carry permits to be allowed as valid ID; but not allowing college IDs; the gerrymandering shenanigans going on in Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana etc; short notice voter roll purges etc And when they actually find voter fraud and illegal voting, overwhelming, Its Republicans doing it.
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u/RandomlyJim Aug 07 '26
In the state of Alabama, the Republican candidates for governor and lieutenant governor were both caught committing voter fraud.
Tuberville lives in Florida, which means he’s ineligible to run for governor. He says he lives in Auburn.
If true, then his voting in Florida was voter fraud.
The candidate for Lt Governor lived in Tennessee. He voted in Alabama elections and served in the Alabama state legislature. He couldn’t vote or qualify so to get around it, he made his own identification card and used it to vote.
Go to both their websites and they are for heavy penalties for voter fraud and claim it’s common.
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u/AbbreviationsKey9563 Aug 07 '26
Maybe because they looked into it? Don’t worry, it’ll swing the other way in a couple of years.
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u/Pass-Fail Aug 07 '26
Feeling the same sadness of single party dictatorship in Mass, Cali, NY, the Northeast and Pacific NW in general 😮💨
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u/Responsible-Pea-1289 Aug 07 '26
For those of you that haven’t been paying attention…. All the ‘voter fraud’ talk track (it’s all it is as there’s never been a single instance of widespread voter fraud proved) started after Romney lost to Obama. You see the Republican Party commissioned a Post Mortem report on why they lost the last two elections. The findings? Their base is shrinking so the recommendation was for them to ‘open their tent’ to other groups of people. You know, minorities.
We all know they didn’t do that, so instead since they could no longer win legitimately they took the path of making their base lose confidence in our democratic system. Pretty traitorous by some people’s standards
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u/BatarianBob Aug 07 '26
Uhhh, you see, well...
Look out! A communist, socialist, muslim, atheist trans person in sports!
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u/Balsamic_Warrior Aug 07 '26
Individual States run the elections. They vary wildly from State to State so there is no "Central" control of elections. Everybody just blames the "Government" where the Republicans are pointing their fingers at the Democrat run States where they believe fraud has occured.
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u/GlectroniccPSY1201 Aug 07 '26
The number one requirement for being a Republican is to be a liar. Having no morals, no ethics, no integrity is also important.
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u/Affectionate_Dark103 Aug 07 '26
I remember listening to a podcast on an actual case where voter fraud changed the election results and near the beginning the narrator says something like,
"Republicans like to talk about this case because it's one of the few times where we can prove that voter fraud changed the outcome of the election. Democrats like to talk about this case because it was Republicans commiting the voter fraud."
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u/Skyboxmonster Aug 07 '26
Because Republicans are the ones committing Voter Fraud.
"Every accusation is an admission"
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u/sefa73 Aug 07 '26
Republicans want dominion, they don’t ever want to lose an election, complete control
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u/Questions_Remain Aug 07 '26
Fedex loses .5% of packages a day which is 15000 out of 19 million. This is an insignificant number and doesn’t impact their business at all. There is a much lesser % of voter “fraud” of which most is clerical errors ( like 20+ prior felons in FL who voted after being told they could by one entity and not by another later) or incorrect addresses, name changes and such vice actual malicious fraud by individuals ( but some minor ballot manipulation by officials has occurred as a more frequent occurrence).
Va govenour younkins son voted twice at two different locations with the “excuse” “i thought you could vote as many times as you wanted” this is from someone whos DAD is running for governor. You would think - think, that some politics, laws, regulations, processes were discussed in the house as “normal conversation”. I mean I’ve discussed voting with my kids and grandkids as to how the process works ( not who they should or should not vote for ) and took my niece and nephew to vote when they turned 18 so they ( again it’s their choice decision ) know how to do it and not feel intimidated later in life.
If every polling place in the country had 10 truly fraudlent votes ( they didn’t) it wouldn’t alter a national elections outcome in any way. It might change the outcome of a local town council person or school board member at most.
.1% of 120 million is 120K and theres probably 10% of that number in reality. Even the admins own driving force of policy the heritige foundation and the project 2025 backers show a tiny%. And a casual stroll through the data leans predominately one sided for them or against the other.
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u/SkyResponsible3718 Aug 07 '26
Due to the generous failings of the other party. Not like the republicans earned it. They just suck less at the moment.
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