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PurgedVoter

(2,218 posts)
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 08:19 PM Feb 2020

Voter suppression is identical in effect to massive voter fraud.

When you have an idea how I will vote and you find a way to stop my vote, how is that any different from someone voting twice? It is different because the people who suppress votes do it on a massive scale and they use a position of trust and power to do it.

Officials who cannot clearly demonstrate that they prevented more voter fraud than possible fair votes, should go to jail. There should be no statute of limitation since cheating on an election and winning can protect the cheater.

To prevent taxation without representation, on the civil side, individuals who have been deprived of their vote should be able to sue the officials and force them to pay all of their taxes personally for the period covered by the election in question. Individuals who have been deprived of their vote should also be able to choose the location of the court the suit is pursued in. Large companies do it. We should be able to do the same and not be limited because our local politicians are a tight knit group of con men.

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Voter suppression is identical in effect to massive voter fraud. (Original Post) PurgedVoter Feb 2020 OP
They cover their efforts with a veneer of legitimacy, pretending to... Beartracks Feb 2020 #1
What's even worse......... MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #2
IT is ELECTION fraud, not voter fraud. SEmantics are IMPORTANT here. THe voters are NOT the ones Amaryllis Feb 2020 #3

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
1. They cover their efforts with a veneer of legitimacy, pretending to...
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 08:23 PM
Feb 2020

... prevent a problem that largely doesn't exist. And then they write off all the honest, innocent voters who get disenfranchised as just so much "collateral damage."

I think your proposal is good.

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MyOwnPeace

(16,928 posts)
2. What's even worse.........
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 08:24 PM
Feb 2020

voter suppression has the ability to have a larger impact on voter count.

Someone "pretending" to be someone else delivers 1 fraudulent vote.

Voter suppression smothers hundreds or thousands of votes.

Guess which way the Republicans choose to move?

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
3. IT is ELECTION fraud, not voter fraud. SEmantics are IMPORTANT here. THe voters are NOT the ones
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 08:46 PM
Feb 2020

committing the fraud. Voter fraud is the phrase people who are doing voter suppression use to justify voter suppression.

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