Itโs not about arguments. Itโs about facts.
I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:
There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.
The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.
This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the partyโs disposal:
A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.
Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.
State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.
Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the stateโs electoral systems.
Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.
Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.
What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?
Ask The Heritage Foundation.
For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an โElection Fraud Database.โ
The database contains โproven instances of election fraud.โ
It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.
Thatโs billions and billions of American votes.
Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:
1620.
Thatโs an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:
1. Some individuals commit election fraud.
2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.
The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.
It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.
Stop trying to subvert our democracy.
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@aopaderf@stephen_richer@JTLonsdale OTOH... no credible evidence has been produced of large scale fraud. If confidence is low, it's because the right has been attacking election integrity for several years. Finally, how many legit votes can we prevent/throw out to prevent 230 fraudulent votes?
@aopaderf@stephen_richer@JTLonsdale Come on, man. No one is claiming voter fraud doesn't exist. 236 cases... in 6 years. The problem is that one side is alleging massive, multi-state, election swinging fraud. And, so far, no one has anything but crazy accusations.
@aopaderf@stephen_richer@JTLonsdale Half the country has no confidence because their political leadership has been screaming fraud for years. Weird how no evidence and no convictions have ever resulted, right?
@McCainJack I see the mobius strip design symbolizing infinity... like redeploying to the same FOB every year. Groundhog Day jobs. Rotating DFAC menus. Lol. Seriously though. What is that?
@Truth_in_Number@pgipe I don't know where you're getting your info, but I've heard nothing of the sort.
My sources say it's a pineapple, the bigger, the better.
@p3driver@YourAnonNews Every other president released their tax returns voluntarily.
The guy that leaked Trump's returns was a contractor that was arrested and is currently in prison.
Try again.
@LucasSa56947288@NancyMace I'm sorry you found out the hard way. MAGA doesn't care how often you support conservative policies. Tell the Emperor he has no clothes, even once, and under the bus you go. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@billyray2022@TheWarMonitor Then prove it. Produce some evidence that actually stands up in court. MAGA keeps burning down confidence in elections but never seems to have anything more than allegations that go nowhere.
@DanCrenshawTX Looks to me that the Parliamentarian is calling balls and strikes, Dan. Maybe if the President and Congress would quit using reconciliation instead of the normal budget process you wouldn't have this problem.
@FedUpRetMarine@MikeBales Conflict between various Protestants sects and Catholics was still a thing in 1776. The 30 Years War was only a few generations past. Several colonies were founded as refuges for religious groups or on religious freedom. The idea of an official religion was ridiculous.