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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas 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/Theres 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.
Skraxx
(2,967 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,691 posts)Freethinker65
(9,998 posts)thucythucy
(8,037 posts)or is this joker willing to pay out of his own pocket?
Also--isn't this the same guy who said a while back that some of us might have to die in order to save the economy?
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)He seems like a nice man.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Link to tweet
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Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Hilarious, no BS kinda guy. Pure Pennsylvania.
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)do this year.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)EarlG
(21,932 posts)A million dollar bounty is something you put on the head of Lex Luthor. It's supervillain money. It's like, "this is literally the worst person in the world, you've all seen his crimes, here's a huge reward to bring him to justice."
This is not about trying to get information about widespread voter fraud -- there's nothing to report, because there was no widespread voter fraud. But it does plant an image of wrongdoing in the public's mind. You wouldn't put a million dollar bounty on something if it wasn't a big deal, right?
The truth is that this is basically like offering one million dollars to find Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
SomedayKindaLove
(528 posts)We could win a million dollars! Hot damn!
Americas new reality game show, like keno, every day, every minute, every network.
We jumped the shark years ago, surreal city from here on out.
blogslut
(37,981 posts)I mean, I know why. He's trying to keep the myth going.
Still, wut?
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)UTUSN
(70,641 posts)Vivienne235729
(3,376 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)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 Trumps 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 Kobachs 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 Spakovskys 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
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Some guy named Donald in DC has the evidence!
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