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Thu Sep 13, 2018, 04:46 AM Sep 2018

Donald Trump is working to suppress the vote in North Carolina using monstrous new methods

For years, the GOP has been painting false pictures of illegal voting by likely Democratic constituencies to block their partisan rivals. Before Florida’s 2000 president election, the Republican Secretary of State used intentionally sloppy data mining by a contactor as the basis to purge tens of thousands of voters—who were misidentified as former felons. In the past decade, Kobach’s operation has waved the fake flag of people registering and voting in more than one state. And in recent years and especially under Trump, the GOP focus has shifted to a more race-based phantom: illegal voting by non-citizens.

In all these cases, the real occurrence of illegal voting is less than minuscule. The right-wing Heritage Foundation’s post-2016 report of all national examples of false registrations, ineligible voting, fraudulent use of absentee ballots, and duplicate voting cited 492 cases and 733 convictions from 1982 through 2016. That is one case for every 2 million presidential election voters from 1984 to 2016 (roughly 980 million votes). If you count by convictions, where some people pleaded to more than one charge, that total was still less than one in a million illegal voters.


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/donald-trump-working-suppress-vote-north-carolina-using-monstrous-new-methods/

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