Texas GOP Lt. Gov offering 1 million dollar bounty for evidence of voter fraud.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/texass-gop-lt-governor-offering-1-million-bounty-for-evidence-of-voter-fraud/“There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but Dan Patrick is encouraging people to report it with up to a $1 million reward” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Oh okay, there is a loophole - UP TO a 1 million dollar reward. So if you just voted for your dead grandmother and turn yourself in to get the reward you might only get 100 bucks, which would probably not cover the cost of your fine.
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He seems like a nice man.
The GOP has been looking for voter fraud for 20+ years to justify their voter suppression efforts and have yet been able to document any real voter fraut. Back in the bush years, the bush DOJ searched for evidence of voter fraud and could not find any. In the Texas voter id case, the state could not provide any evidence of the type of voter fraud that would be prevented by voter id laws. In the other major voter id cases, the state has also been unable to provide evidence of voter fraud and so have had issues in these cases. In the ACLU v. Kobach case, Kobach attempted to manufactured evidence to justify the Kansas voter registration/citizenship law using the same evidence cited by trump as proof of voter fraud and relying on an asshole who used to be on the federal election commission.. The judge had fun pointing out how Kobach's so-called experts were not experts and how they failed https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kobach-witnesses-judge-opinion
She said that “misleading evidence” and “preconceived beliefs about this issue” were the basis of the testimony given by one member of President Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission, which Kobach once led. The author of a report Trump allies once touted as evidence of mass voter fraud offered estimates of Kansas non-citizen registration that were “individually flawed and wildly varied,” Robinson said. Additionally, the top researcher at an anti-immigration think tank who argued that the Kobach’s law did not affect voter turnout was not qualified to make such a conclusion, Robinson ruled, excluding large parts of his testimony.
Kobach — as part of a test an appeals court said the district judge should use to evaluate his voter law — needed to prove that voter fraud, and specifically non-citizen registration, was a “substantial” problem in Kansas. The experts he called appeared to be the best options he had to back that claim — and they fell well short of convincing the judge.
“The Court will not rely on extrapolated numbers from tiny sample sizes and otherwise flawed data,” she said.
Hans von Spakovsky is a bush recess appointee to the FEC and is now with the Heritage Foundation. This asshole is cited by trump and the other vote suppressors even though Hans von Spakovsky is a total idiot. I love the way that the judge treated this idiot.
She also picked apart other claims von Spakovsky made about voter fraud based on reports outside of Kansas, and knocked him for failing to correct or supplement his expert report when obvious flaws were pointed out to him during the proceedings.
"The record is replete with further evidence of Mr. von Spakovsky’s bias,” she said.
These so-called experts will now be challenged if they attempt to testify in the future. This opinion really makes me smile
