My, my what to do now
Lead to this post was triggered by this interview – in
case you missed it … it’s a keeper:
Stephen Miller - The
President's Top Policy Adviser (Whew, boy)
Highlights:
A comprehensive 2014 study published
in The Washington Post found 31 credible instances of
impersonation fraud from 2000 to 2014, out of more than 1 billion ballots
cast. Even this tiny number is likely inflated, as the study’s author counted
not just prosecutions or convictions, but any and all credible claims.
Two
studies done at Arizona State University, one in 2012 and another in 2016,
found similarly negligible rates of impersonation fraud.
Courts Agree: Fraud by Voters at the
Polls is Nearly Non-Existent
The
Fifth Circuit, in an opinion finding that
Texas’s strict photo ID law is racially discriminatory, noted that there were
“only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of 20 million
votes cast in the decade” before Texas passed its law.
In its opinion striking down
North Carolina’s omnibus restrictive election law —which included a voter ID
requirement — as purposefully racially discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit noted
that the state “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been
charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.”
A federal trial court in Wisconsin reviewing
that state’s strict photo ID law found “that impersonation fraud — the type of
fraud that voter ID is designed to prevent — is extremely rare” and “a truly
isolated phenomenon that has not posed a significant threat to the integrity of
Wisconsin’s elections.”
Even
the Supreme Court, in its opinion in Crawford upholding
Indiana’s voter ID law, noted that the record in the case “contains no evidence
of any [in-person voter impersonation] fraud actually occurring in Indiana at
any time in its history.”
Trump
and his minions just cannot separate fact from fiction … as for Trump: He can
never admit is wrong, or that he lost, or will lose. He cannot accept defeat –
not when myth prevails. First, though, he will have to check with Alex Jones atInfoWars to reconfirm his suspicions.
Sad…!! (play on Trump's tweet conclusion)...
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