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Analysis: Rigged election claims may leave lasting damage
Associated Press ^ | Oct 15, 2016 7:40 PM EDT | Julie Pace

Posted on 10/15/2016 9:40:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Donald Trump keeps peddling the notion the vote may be rigged. It’s not clear if he does not understand the potential damage of his words — or he simply does not care.

Trump’s claim — made without evidence — undercuts the essence of American democracy, the idea that U.S. elections are both free and fair, with the vanquished peacefully stepping aside for the victor. His repeated assertions are sowing suspicion among his most ardent supporters, raising the possibility that millions of people may not accept the results on Nov. 8 if Trump does not win.

The responsibilities for the New York billionaire in such a scenario are minimal. Trump holds no public office and has said he’ll simply go back to his “very good way of life” if he loses.

Instead, it would be Democrat Hillary Clinton and congressional Republicans, should they win, who would be left trying to govern in a country divided not just by ideology, but also the legitimacy of the presidency. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; coverup; liberalmedia; voterfraud
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Indeed, it would be people like Julie Pace who refused to investigate voter fraud that leaves the legitimacy of the presidency in such a sordid question. It’s not clear if she does not understand the potential damage of her neglect to do her job — or she simply does not care.


1 posted on 10/15/2016 9:40:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY GIVE A F### ABOUT DEMOCRACY!!!

HEY B.TCH, #### MY ####.

On second thought, I saw your face, forget it


2 posted on 10/15/2016 9:43:42 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

If they would stop the voter fraud of all kinds there would be nothing for Trump or future people to be concerned about.
Do nothing to correct it and yes it will continue to leave lasting damage as we are already living in damage of previous vote fraud.

It’s that simple.


3 posted on 10/15/2016 9:47:34 PM PDT by b4me (Idolatry is rampant in thoughts and actions. Choose whom you will serve....)
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To: Olog-hai

Julie, you stupid slut........


4 posted on 10/15/2016 9:50:28 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Olog-hai
So for the good of the country we should just lie back and take it, whether it is suddenly found boxes of ballots in Wisconsin, Seattle or even Chicago in 1960 or over 100% voter "participation" or thugs guarding the doors against Republicans in Philadelphia. And we should have also ignored the Democrats flouting Florida law requiring that if any ballots are recounted that all must be recounted in 2000 and let Gore steal the election trough a suspect partial recount... for the defense of Democracy.

I have an idea: Dems, you stop stealing elections and we'll stop complaining about you stealing elections.

5 posted on 10/15/2016 9:51:03 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
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To: Olog-hai
undercuts the essence of American democracy, the idea that U.S. elections are both free and fair, with the vanquished peacefully stepping aside for the victor.


6 posted on 10/15/2016 9:52:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Pathetic reasoning.


7 posted on 10/15/2016 9:53:08 PM PDT by Williams (The (republican) party is over.)
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To: Olog-hai

It is they themselves by that antics that give rise to the suspicion of rigging. They can say, as they have, that there is “zero evidence of coordination between news organizations” when it comes to attacks on Trump, but the very fact that every outlet is pounding the same unproven and unprovible stories, even using the exact same words to describe them, while totally ignoring the Wikileak revelations, suggests that there is coordination.

It is very obvious that they don’t seem to care how that looks to people that they look down upon as being inferior to them.


8 posted on 10/15/2016 9:54:14 PM PDT by euram
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To: Olog-hai

These claims are given a lot of credence with the FBI being corrupted by politics


9 posted on 10/15/2016 9:55:07 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Olog-hai

Nothing to peddle. It IS rigged.


10 posted on 10/15/2016 9:55:50 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Salvavida

“Julie, you stupid slut...”

This.


11 posted on 10/15/2016 9:56:39 PM PDT by wheresmyusa (FTUN)
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To: Olog-hai

Voter fraud is real. The reason the Democrat party fights voter id is voter fraud is essential to their election.

John F Kennedy was elected due to voter fraud in Cook County Illinois which is Chicago. Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected Senator from Texas due to voter fraud (and deaths) in Duval County Texas.

Voter fraud has changed the course of history in our nation. Voter fraud is real.

ps
There is an old joke about Johnson’s election in Texas. A young boy was seen crying and a man walked up to him and asked what is the problem? The boy said, “My grandfather came back from the grave to vote for Lyndon Johnson but did not come to see me!”


12 posted on 10/15/2016 9:58:03 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Olog-hai

Official CAUGHT Outlining Democrat VOTER FRAUD

Playbookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mug0nLX4_kk


13 posted on 10/15/2016 9:58:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: euram

Julie might want to investigate the AP reporters who were named in the Wikileaks docs that tie them to the Clinton campaign and the DNC


14 posted on 10/15/2016 9:58:27 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Olog-hai

Julie is really good at making broad generalizations without any proof.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480953/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3480721/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480584/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480418/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480340/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3479441/posts

Every one of those posts is about voter fraud and were posted here on FR in the last few days. Maybe Julie should visit FR.


15 posted on 10/15/2016 10:03:03 PM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)
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>> Donald Trump keeps peddling the notion the vote may be rigged.

Opposed to irreproachable claim AP would grant the Left:

    Democrats raise concern of voter intimidation

You're a hack, Julie.

The MSM is the Country's greatest threat.

16 posted on 10/15/2016 10:03:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

America was not founded as a Democracy, the Founders didn’t put a right to vote in the Constitution for that very reason.

We went to war after the election of 1860 (so much for a peaceful transfer of power) and the DC tyrants murdered the sons of the Founders, conspired to give women the vote and institute an Unconstitutional income tax to steal our Money and enrich themselves in perpetuity.

Julie Pace is an effin moron.


17 posted on 10/15/2016 10:05:12 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: cpdiii

Robert Caro’s book “Means of Ascent” details how Lyndon Johnson stole his seat from Coke Stevenson in 1948.
With ‘rats it’s “by hook or crook”. If they think they can put Hillary on ice and steal this election, they’ve got another think coming.


18 posted on 10/15/2016 10:09:37 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Olog-hai

These people are beyond stupid or corrupt. They have totally lost control of what lies they’ve told when and where, and are now just vomiting words into the air. Kind of smells like flop sweat from here.


19 posted on 10/15/2016 10:09:40 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Olog-hai

Charges of voter fraud made after a election are usually shrugged off, even when there is proof.


20 posted on 10/15/2016 10:11:43 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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