Posted on 10/18/2016 8:17:33 PM PDT by Mariner
Imagine voting on Nov. 8 under the watchful gaze of, say, a posse of poll watchers, assault-style rifles slung over their shoulders, “Make America Great Again” hats perched on their heads.
Sounds farfetched? Maybe in California. But in swing states such as Ohio and North Carolina, local officials are bracing as Donald Trump, his campaign sputtering, has called on his troops to deter what he claims is a “rigged” election. “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day,” he tweeted Monday, without a shred of evidence. “Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!”
“Whining,” President Barack Obama called Trump’s outburst, and it’s an apt description. But in a campaign rife with demagoguery, Trump’s sour grapes mark a new, and dangerous low.
Among other things, he has encouraged supporters to become self-appointed poll monitors, hinting that urban neighborhoods in particular might be prone to cheating. “Go down to certain areas,” he said at a rally last month in rural Pennsylvania, “and watch and study to make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times.”
In another country, talk like this would be sedition.
Trump knows his calls for vigilantism invite confrontation.
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, as researchers have found over and over. One study, done two years ago by a Loyola Law School professor who specializes in election administration, found just 31 credible claims in more than 1 billion ballots cast over the past 16 years. Because polling places are managed at the local level, “rigging” a national election is nearly impossible. That’s a truth Americans need to hear.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Oh, and there's no such thing as vote fraud.
That's real already-happened violence and intimidation by Hillary supporters. Has the SacBee covered those?
Where was this editorial during the Bush-Gore battle in Florida? Liberals are so dishonest.
By all means let’s do EVERYTHING we can to avoid election-related violence, m’kay..?
Like we prolly shouldn’t invite a FELON advocating violence to the whitehouse THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO TIMES SINCE 2009..!!
Just a thought.
You mean like the kind of violence fomented by the Clinton machine and their Democrat operatives, as proven beyond a reasonable doubt by James O'Keefe and Wikileaks?
No one has been arrested yet, nor charged, or any suspects as far as I know.
They forgot the BARF ALERT!!!!
They weren’t saying this in 2000 when the Democrats and the media were accusing the Bush campaign of stealing Florida.
They weren’t saying this in 2000 when the Democrats and the media were accusing the Bush campaign of stealing Florida.
Used to be that research was needed to tell if someone was lying.
Now?
Now only need to know if Dem/Lib or not.
Dem = liar
Simple as that....and one will be right est. 90% of the time.
Rigging an election IS an act of violence,
It is rigged.
That is an irrefutable fact.
The attempt to refute the irrefutable only reinforces the accurate premise.
Look, enough BS.
A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for war. That’s all.
It’s not a threat, just a deduction from a study of history and multiple encounters with her flying monkeys.
As the great Colin Liddell put it recently, “They are dying to start something they can’t finish”.
Can one be a good Dem and not be a lying psychopath?
Why would two people be forced to resign already if not rigged elections? Yeah, it’s rigged.
BLM movement is slippery slope on steroids. Where was concern ?
Domestic terrorism by them Buddhists again...
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