January 5, 2016: "This voting system is out of control. You have people, in my opinion, that are voting many, many times. They don't want security, they don't want cards."
August 2, 2016: "We may have people vote 10 times. " "I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be surprised if the election . . . there’s a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged. I would not be surprised."
RUCKER: Do you think someone can vote multiple times? TRUMP: Multiple times. How about like 10 times.
October 17, 2016: "Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
November 27, 2016: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem!"
January 25, 2017: "I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!"
There is no credible evidence to support these assertions. Furthermore, there is no credible evidence of large-scale voter fraud occurring in the United States, nor any credible evidence of any large-scale voter fraud having occurred in the 2016 election. Most claims to the contrary have originated on right-wing websites and those claims have not stood up to scrutiny, like an article on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s InfoWars website, which falsely claimed that 3 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally this year.
May 11, 2017: Presidential Executive Order on the Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
Read it, you'll see how POTUS 45 uses the power of his office to attempt to validate his own desires. Do not be distracted by the prose in which it is couched. I would also strongly recommend you peruse the meeting minutes this commission has issued.
There are many more assertions of this type that have been made since the establishment of the Advisory Commission. That's a hell of a lot of smoke, there must be a fire. Evidently not,
January 3, 2018: Executive Order on the Termination of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. What the hell? Oh, wait, there must be some definitive findings regarding the massive voter fraud taking place in U.S. elections. Tell us, is it the undocumented immigrants (illegal aliens, for my Republican readers)? Maybe it is all the dead people. Could it be the folks who are registered in multiple states and driving amongst those on election day? No? Then why are you disbanding?
Maybe some realized the only fraud being perpetrated here is the existence of this commission. Nope, not that either. “Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry. Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action.” Donald J Trump.
So, your position is still that voter fraud exists and there is substantial evidence of such. However, because it is difficult and costly to prove this, you will, metaphorically, take your ball and go home. Apparently the sanctity of the polling booth is not as firmly held a belief as you have led us to accept it to be.
The only fraud here is you. Oh, and your little hands, those are fraudulent appendages.
Whaduyathink?
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