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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:52 PM Oct 2016

My Facebook status today -- please STEAL it and post in as your own

The effort being made to discredit the validity of US elections is pretty disturbing. There have always been dead people on the voting rolls. That's because people die all the time and county clerks don't instantly change the voting lists to reflect that. Same is true for people who move from one jurisdiction to another. This is not new. None of that means that illegal aliens or other ineligible voters routinely misrepresent themselves to vote in the name of a dead person or somebody who has recently moved. In fact, evidence shows that such instances are exceedingly rare. Don't fall for the spin. The elections here are at least as free and fair as any others in the world.
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My Facebook status today -- please STEAL it and post in as your own (Original Post) LuckyTheDog Oct 2016 OP
Done and TY..n/t monmouth4 Oct 2016 #1
honestly, i feel like this is not a partisan issue. Ever since Gore, when either the left or right La Lioness Priyanka Oct 2016 #2
Yep. 2.6 million people die in the USA each year. And millions are born. Circle of life. nt Turn CO Blue Oct 2016 #3
In all probability, someone mailed in a vote for Trump, and has since passed away. Glassunion Oct 2016 #4
I'm sorry, i think this was tasteless. nt retrowire Oct 2016 #6
I am sorry - as a third generation educator malaise Oct 2016 #8
Towards whom exactly? nt Glassunion Oct 2016 #9
I laughed. Hope the gods don't smite me! japple Oct 2016 #10
No need to PasadenaTrudy Oct 2016 #5
Known Trump Pussy Grabs: 12 * Known Voter Fraud Cases: 1 per election Coyotl Oct 2016 #11
Here in PA.............. mrmpa Oct 2016 #12
 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
2. honestly, i feel like this is not a partisan issue. Ever since Gore, when either the left or right
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:57 PM
Oct 2016

loses an election, they feel like it's about rigging and not that they lost.

The difference is that at least the leaders of the democratic party were not spinning this tale when Kerry lost. whereas the leaders of the republican party have no shame./

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
4. In all probability, someone mailed in a vote for Trump, and has since passed away.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:15 PM
Oct 2016

They were however never properly diagnosed as brain dead before they voted.

malaise

(267,808 posts)
8. I am sorry - as a third generation educator
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 04:30 PM
Oct 2016

anyone who denies the existence of facts and opts for garbage spewed by people without knowledge in the accepted meaning of the word, is brain dead.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
11. Known Trump Pussy Grabs: 12 * Known Voter Fraud Cases: 1 per election
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 04:48 PM
Oct 2016

This could be a tee-shirt, but brevity is better:

"Trump's hands are rigged."

That could replace "The dog ate my homework."

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)
12. Here in PA..............
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:31 PM
Oct 2016

most of the poll workers are from the neighborhood and know most if not all of those voting. When I was Judge of Elections, I knew whose spouse or parent had died. We had forms to be filled out by the next of kin & the next election the deceased person's name was no longer on the register.

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