Rick Santorum demands former Secretary of State commit fraud to run a sting operation on voter fr

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story


Sarah K. Burris
30 JUN 2017 AT 20:37 ET


Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) believes so firmly in voter fraud that he wants to see Secretaries of State run sting operations uncover whether or not there is voter fraud. There’s just one problem — doing so would require an official to commit a felony.

“You know, to the previous report that there is no evidence of voter fraud, that’s just ridiculous,” Santorum told Jim Sciutto. “There is all sorts of studies been done about non-citizens signing up to vote. In California it’s easy.”

Sciutto rattled of the 0.0002 percent of cases in which someone illegally signed up to vote.

“Well, look, the bottom line is there has never been really good studies,” Santorum claimed. “Jason [Kanear] was the Secretary of State. Did you ever really test to see whether people could vote illegally? Did you send them into voting places and see if they could vote under dead people. The city of New York did and they found out 97 percent of the people that tried to vote illegally were able to vote illegally. So, I don’t think it’s done very much. I don’t think people check.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/rick-santorum-demands-secretary-of-state-commit-fraud-to-run-a-sting-operation-on-voter-fraud/

[Catmusicfan]

1. Really?

[rurallib]

2. This from a guy who didn't even live in the state he represented in the senate?

We had a couple arrested in Iowa - one trying to vote twice for Trump so the election wouldn't be stolen from him.

[Bengus81]

12. Senator Pat Roberts doesn't live in Kansas

Has a rental in western Kansas and it's rented to others full time. They let him drop in and set in a chair for a couple of hours so he can claim residency. Not making any of it up...........

[monmouth4]

3. He's still around?..n/t

[Moostache]

4. So 97% of the 0.00002% were successful?

Out of 100's of millions of votes, that would be 1 or 2 TOTAL votes per state...once again a solution for a non-problem...go watch "The Newsroom" with Jeff Bridges run down on this...REMEMBER DOROTHY COOPER!!!!!

[FakeNoose]

13. Jeff Daniels starred in The Newsroom

... not Jeff Bridges, and he was awesome.

I hope they bring back that show now, with all the Trump craziness going on.

[Honeycombe8]

5. 97% of all 10 of them? This is what they don't say.

There is NO evidence, that I know of, that there is voter fraud of any significance. There is fraud in anything and everything. But there has to be fraud of some significance to have any effect. A person here and there has no effect.

It also has no effect to have MORE Democrats vote illegally in a blue district. Or to have MORE Republicans vote in a red district.

The way to commit voting fraud, that I've seen, is for Secretaries of State to do things of significance that affect thousands of votes. Like the Sec of State in Ohio once didn't allow absentee votes to be counted (I forget the reason). Or when we find ballots left in some ballot workers car, and they haven't been counted. THAT is votING fraud of significance. And I've only heard of that in REPUBLICAN districts.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

6. Rick Santorum is so 1998 n/m

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Wildly inaccurate statement here --

"There’s just one problem ..." Like Hell there is. This scheme is all problems.

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Pretty sure Santorum lived in VA and voted in PA

Oh, he had an address in Penn Hills, but rarely was there. He/wife couldn't be bothered with doing jury duty either when he/wife were called.

[atreides1]

11. Here's an old article about Rick!

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/rick-santorums-school-scandal/


"The Santorums bought the three-bedroom house in 1997 for $87,800. But after Santorum got elected to the Senate in 1994, he bought a much larger home in Virginia that would accommodate his ever-growing family. Some relatives moved into the Penn Hills house, but Santorum continued to use it to claim residency in Pennsylvania, where he voted by absentee ballot."

It seems that for years Santorum claimed his Penn Hills home as his legal residence! I'm not sure how it works in PA, but in other places I've lived you cannot claim an address as your place of residence if the property is leased to another person!


Some other interesting things about Santorum:

http://www.realchange.org/santorum.htm#corrupt

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Thankfully Frothy lost here in PA by almost 18%

and we have Bob Casey.

[modrepub]

10. Notice that Voter Fraud always "happens" in areas with POC?

California, New York, Philadelphia....

(dog whistle) => we need a snarky emoji for this

[FakeNoose]

14. Fraud committed by Russians to benefit the GOP

... that's the only fraud that happened in Pennsylvania.

Yes it probably will be proved sooner or later. The point is that we have to make sure it never happens again.

Rick Santorum why don't you STFU? You're part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[Hieronymus]

15. Yes, enough of Rick.