There is still local news in Sioux City, South Dakota.
Voters there learned that the wife of their County Supervisor, Jeremy Taylor, a Republican, voted over 50 times for him in each of two elections.
It is Easy Sunday, so I will make quick points.
1. There is a Sioux City newspaper, with a story. The Sioux City metropolitan area is 250,000 people, just a bit larger than Jackson County, Oregon. Voters there learned something important for them to know.
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2. There were also stories in the Des Moines newspapers and one in Iowa Starting Line, a public benefit company covering Iowa and seven battleground states. Iowa Starting Line illustrated their story with two photographs of Kim Phuong Taylor wearing a Trump gear. They treated it as a story about Republican election fraud.
3. Democratic readers of this blog may feel a moment's joy that it was a Republican activist doing the fraud. Democrats should temper their emotions. Her scheme was to approach people with limited English in the Vietnamese community, gather their absentee ballots, mark ballots for them, and submit them. It is exactly the kind of thing Trump, Kari Lake, and other election-fraud claimants claim Democrats do. By committing the crime, Kim Phuong Taylor demonstrated that the crime can be committed.
4. Republican election denialists point to corruption they presume in big cities, not rural areas. No one claims to target Black or new-immigrant voters, only whatever voters just happen to be in the urban centers of Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. Wink. Their presumption of Democratic fraud is justification for Republican fraud. Remember, the slogan was not "Steal the Election for Trump to End Democracy." It was "Stop the Steal." They were just stealing it back.
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7 comments:
Does anybody really believe that Dementia Joe got more votes than both Obama the Messiah and Hillary, while campaigning in a basement? C'mon, Man!
Election fraud exists. It has been perpetrated by individuals both Democrat and Republican. It’s also been reported by news sources over the years, but the numbers are miniscule compared to the overall vote count. What hasn’t happened is voter fraud widespread enough to alter the outcome of an election…except, of course, in the fevered imagination of Trump’s chumps.
In fact, after the 2016 election, President Trump baselessly alleged that 3-5 million illegal votes had been cast and appointed a special commission to investigate. It found nothing and quietly disbanded without even filing a report. It now looks like Gov. Ron DeSantis' recently established “election crimes unit” is headed down that same path.
One need not go any farther to find an example of the ignorance and juvenility of the Republican mindset than the slogan: "Let's Go Brandon".
Another is The Big Lie, which requires one to believe that elections are stolen by a vast, multi-state conspiracy that requires thousands of illegal votes to be cast by presumably highly competent actors who are able to do so undetected, and who are also abetted by the judiciary. All this in the face of a 200+ year tradition of free and fair election administration. After all, if our elections are so easily corrupted, wouldn't we question anyone who wins?
Contrast this to other so called democracies, where intimidation rules sham elections of corrupt nationalist autocracies, and where this very statement would expose the writer to prosecution. Do the purveyors of The Big Lie actually believe the United States is such a place, or is it just a convenient way to pander to a susceptible constituency?
In answer to Mr. Anonymous - yes, I do. That's how desperate sane people were to get rid of t-Rump.
PS: I can see why he's too embarrassed to use his name.
Yes, fraud is possible.
The fact that numbers are small doesn't prove we are safe for future elections. It just means that it is possible to affect the outcome when the vote is close.
Back in 2004, Hugh Hewitt published a book - "If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat"
Yes, Hugh is a center right partisan and radio talk show host.
My take is that elections should not be close. The fact that they are, tells me that we should make voting more secure, not less; if anything, to avoid the sturm and drang if one wins by a very small margin, D or R.
Democrats have consistently opposed voter ID laws because “racism” (their all-purpose epithet for things they don’t like). Constant denials that fraud exists combined with opposition to doing anything to prevent it is a bad look.
Voting restrictions have been used ever since the Civil War to suppress the black vote. They’re still being put in place for that purpose (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/impact-voter-suppression-communities-color) and yes, it’s racist.
The Republican pretext for their restrictions - the delusion that voter fraud occurs on a massive enough scale to make any difference - is not a good look.
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