tRump is calling for an election-fraud probe. I say we give it to him. By all means!

[ffr]

Politico is reporting this in one of today's headlines: Trump's call for election-fraud probe fraught with peril

Now think about it. What better way to confirm his insanity than letting an election-fraud probe perform an investigation? Their conclusion will find that his crazy conspiracy hypothesis is little more than one more of his alternative facts. So one result will be that tRump is a crazy and now confirmed by a public probe. But that's just some of the fun this probe could conclude.

If they find there was election fraud, it could uncover more Russian tampering and perhaps blow this whole election result's legitimacy, his legitimacy, out of the water.

Even if it doesn't find that, there could be a lot of good that might turn into positive legislation to protect voter rights and shine light on gerrymandered districts and other Republicon dirty tricks.

I'm in agreement with tRump on this one. Start an election-fraud probe immediately!

[tenorly]

1. And start by dragging Arkansas space cadet Leslie Rutledge into it.

Followed by Kris Kobach and his money laundry sugar daddy, Paul Singer.

[question everything]

2. I am curious on how he will react then he is told that there was no fraud

throw himself on the floor with temper tantrum?

[guillaumeb]

3. But who will investigate the supposed fraud?

Will Trump appoint Kris Kobach to Chair the investigation?

[ffr]

5. A congressional panel or perhaps DOJ attorneys by the looks of it.

[guillaumeb]

8. If the panel is Chaired by the majority party,

I would bet that the panel will take forever, allow every right wing voter fraud conspiracy theorist plenty of air time to advance theories and evidence, and GOP voters will believe whatever Trump tweets about the issue.

[ffr]

9. And all of their findings will be made public for the 66 million American majority voters to judge

If that were the case, they'd still be making fools of themselves, regardless of the minority who will feed on the conspiracies put forth.

[Chasstev365]

4. If the Democratic Party had a clue they would start clamoring for it!

Let's have a complete, wide reaching investigation, including hacking, the Russians, and electronic voting machines.

The GOP would shit themselves!

[ffr]

6. Precisely! tRump is right.

He just doesn't know what he's getting himself into.

He must be crazy to start an inquiry that will result in them finding him...CRAZY.

[kimbutgar]

7. Audit the election in all 50 states.

I could agree with that! With UN observers and with equal Dem/ReP observers.

[TDale313]

10. If this were actually going to be a fair, thorough investigation

I'd be all for it. Unfortunately we all know this will be a partisan witch hunt intended to legitimize Trump and to give the GOP more excuses to suppress the vote.

[HoneyBadger]

11. The more time that passes, the harder it is to recover evidence

And the end result is the same, update the system.

Just make voting completely electronic via smartphone with multi factor authentication and instant verification.

You have enough time to completely revamp voting methodology. Start by getting rid of all the machines, that ensures that you have gotten rid of the hacked ones.

[TheFrenchRazor]

13. are you kidding? most people don't even have smartphones. every extra layer of technology

just makes one more point of vulnerability.

[TheFrenchRazor]

12. he's calling for a "voter fraud" probe, not an election fraud probe. all it will do

is ignore the russian/GOP election rigging, and throw around a bunch of baseless charges about "illegals" voting.

[ffr]

14. Sweet! Then it'll throw cold water on that baseless claim

and probably conclude that his other baseless claims are delusional, and draw those inquiries out over many months, in the public eye the whole time.

It'll be a parade of continuous embarrassing news for him. Was there voter fraud by 3 - 5 million voters day? No. How about today? No. How about today? Still no.

Once that's been established as the conclusion of the probe, the Press and 66 million voters who said we told you so, can always throw that in his face; we told you so you delusional F--k

But he did say election-fraud.

[DFW]

15. Will he sign a binding pledge to abide by its findings?

And will he refrain from trying to influence/falsify any such panel's findings, should they not be to his liking??

[ffr]

16. That would be awesome, but unlikely, because you and I know he's bluffing.

It would turn into a media circus that'll fuel allegations he is truly unhinged.