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Nevilledog

(51,200 posts) Mon Oct 25, 2021, 01:15 PM Oct 2021

Trump team and Fox alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or actually involved Republi

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The Trump team and Tucker Carlson named specific supposed dead voters.

Most were either debunked or actually involved Republicans.

Analysis | The Trump team and Fox News alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or...
A trip down memory lane on the Trump campaign's allegations of dead voters.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/25/trump-team-fox-news-alleged-dead-voters-most-cases-were-either-debunked-or-actually-involved-republicans/

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President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead to help defeat Trump’s reelection bid.

Unlike many of the often-nebulous claims, these ones carried the benefit of often having been rather specific — citing actual dead people, by name, who supposedly voted. This made them actually verifiable.

Nearly a year later, those specific claims have provided a case study in — and a microcosm of — just how ridiculous this whole exercise was.

The specific dead people cited by Trump and his allies have, in most cases, proven to not actually have been cases of dead people’s identities used fraudulently to vote. And in several other cases, in which a dead person was actually recorded as voting, the culprit has been identified: not a systemic effort to inflate vote totals for President Biden, but rather a Republican.

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Trump team and Fox alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or actually involved Republi (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2021 OP

Repugs have been coerced into cheating. louis-t Oct 2021 #1

Had not heard of someone killing their spouse to vote, have heard Bev54 Oct 2021 #4

It was Colorado. While investigating the murder, they found out louis-t Oct 2021 #5

Thanks, I remember following this one for the murder but had not heard Bev54 Oct 2021 #6

Yep! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2021 #2

Damn! This time I thought the really had something underpants Oct 2021 #3

louis-t

(23,297 posts)

1. Repugs have been coerced into cheating.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Oct 25, 2021, 01:18 PM

Oct 2021

They think Dems are cheating, so it's their patriotic duty to cheat to 'even the score'. One guy in PA killed his wife and tried to vote for fg in her name. 4 out of 5 cases of voter fraud in PA were repugs.

Bev54

(10,072 posts)

4. Had not heard of someone killing their spouse to vote, have heard

Reply to louis-t (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 25, 2021, 04:22 PM

Oct 2021

about the guy whose wife died in 2017 and he voted in her name, I think in Colorado. But would like to hear more about guy who killed his wife and then voted in her name. Did they learn that when charging him with her murder? This sounds interesting.