Mildly Infuriating

They have nothing real to run on. They never do. But idiots will work themselves into a lather over shit that doesn't happen like this.

All they have is engineered outrage and grievance politics. And the chuds will eat it up.

They’re beating this drum now so they can claim the election was stolen by “illegals” voting in swing districts. They just need to (at a minimum) challenge a couple thousand votes in 2-3 states.

2016 election Republicans made Muslims the problem.

2018 election Republicans made the Black people the problem.

2020 election Republicans made the Chinese the problem.

2022 election Republicans made Trans people the problem.

2024 election Republicans make Mexicans and Central Americans the problem.

Seeing a trend here. Can't put my finger on it.

https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/senate-resources/republican-senators

And when voter fraud is found... It's Republicans.

"If I feel like I could justify doing it then that means they can do the same so I better do it to compensate for them doing it!" But the truth is, the other side isn't doing it...

In their mind they literally can't accept that more people disagree with them then not, and this is the only way they can accept it

There's an amendment on the ballot here in Missouri to ban non-citizens from voting this year. Also to ban ever adopting ranked choice voting, but it's really about that non-citizen thing. Totally not ballot candy to do something undemocratic.

If you're in Missouri, vote no on amendment 7 please.

Its rare enough to be trivial, and when it happens, it's usually someone who doesn't realize that they are not eligible. For example, if someone came to the country at a young age and mistakenly thought that they could vote.

But as it turn out, policies that require people to verify their citizenship are also very good at disenfranchising eligible voters who are poor, young, immigrants, disabled, or non-native English speakers. Neat, huh?

Edit: I forgot LGBT folks who may have changed their name or lack access to their childhood documents.

In San Francisco, a resolution was passed allowing undocumented residents who had children to vote legally in school board elections and no one voted. My guess is that even if officially invited to vote, an undocumented person isn’t going to just give the government their name and address. So yeah, Republicans are just conjuring up yet another conspiracy theory to rattle what they themselves call “low information voters”, aka their base.

Illegal voting by noncitizens is far ~~less~~ more rare than illegal voting by conservatives.

Edit: Oops, I got my modifier wrong because I switched up the order halfway through the comment.

Anything to avoid having actual policies and ideas.

There's a this American Life episode about this, starts off being about the birthday paradox.... Gives a good run down of how voter fraud has been disproven as an issue:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/630/things-i-mean-to-know

You want to claim fraud to get the RIGHT people to vote

It’s the only thing they’ve got, to explain conservative losses. Distracts from the perpetual popular vote losses.

Its just part of their desperate attempts to hold onto power. Theyre running scared

because the goal is to end voting for citizens

From what I remember, more republicans committed voter fraud last election over anyone else to ensure their "unbeatable god" wins

Of course they are. It's a narrative. Now they have a reason why they lost.

Start looking for illegals bused in by the GOP to vote illegally.

They always try to (need to?) turn things into a binary. Yes or no. It's a question of how many, but they find one and act like it's everywhere.

Same thing with the one woman killed by an illegal immigrant. They find the case study and act like it's everywhere.