Donald Trump is wrong. Rigging an election is almost impossible. This is how hard it would be to...
This is a good summary--but I know that, as usual, Trump fans and Trump will ignore it and continue to spread lies and fear!
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Ari Berman ?@AriBerman 37m37 minutes ago
My new piece in @washingtonpost debunks Trump absurd claim that Democrats “rigging” election by “voting 10 times”
Donald Trump is wrong. Rigging an election is almost impossible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/05/donald-trump-is-wrong-rigging-an-election-is-almost-impossible/?postshare=8881470413487257&tid=ss_tw
This is how hard it would be to pull off widespread voter fraud.
By Ari Berman August 5
Ari Berman, a senior contributing writer for the Nation, is the author of “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”
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Nothing to see here: a New Hampshire polling station this February. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
In a span of two weeks, federal courts have struck down Republican-backed voting restrictions in six states, including laws that required strict forms of government-issued ID in order to cast a ballot, cut back on early-voting days and made it harder to register. The rulings found that the laws — in Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, North Dakota, Kansas and Wisconsin — violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against people of color, sometimes “with almost surgical precision.”
Rather than seeing these rulings as a victory for democracy, Donald Trump says they will lead to a record number of fraudulent votes for Hillary Clinton in November. “The voter-ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development,” Trump told The Washington Post. “We may have people vote 10 times. .?.?. Why not? If you don’t have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.”
Trump warns general election could be ‘rigged'
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told supporters in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 1 that he worries the Nov. 8 election "is going to be rigged." (The Washington Post)
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If Trump wanted to vote 10 times in New York — a state that requires voters to sign their names at the polls rather than show a photo ID — he’d have to vote in 10 different places, know the names and addresses of nine other registered voters in nine other precincts, be able to forge their exact signatures, and know that they hadn’t voted yet. Each fraudulent vote would carry a penalty of five years in jail and a $10,000 fine, plus additional state penalties.
The risk of getting caught for voter impersonation far outweighs the reward of a few extra votes. That’s why there have been only 31 credible incidents of impersonation out of 1 billion votes cast in the United States since 2000 . In comparison, there are about 30 deaths by lightning in the country each year. “I could not find a single example from the 1980s onward where voter impersonation could have swung one election or that there was any kind of conspiracy to do so,” says Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine and the author of “The Voting Wars.”...........................
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