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femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 09:50 AM Aug 2016

Trump's accusation of voter fraud in Pa. is offensive:

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160819_Inquirer_editorial__Trump_s_accusation_of_voter_fraud_in_PA_is_offensive.html

In his desperation to keep this state in play for the general election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has insulted Pennsylvania voters by calling them cheats.

"We're going to watch Pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don't come in and vote five times," he said at an Aug. 12 rally in Altoona. "If you do that, we're not going to lose. The only way we can lose, in my opinion - I really mean this, Pennsylvania - is if cheating goes on."

The allegation is not only unfounded; it's dangerous. Imagine the chaos and disenfranchisement if Trump's volunteers show up in certain areas of the state to make sure voters feel so intimidated that some may turn around and go home instead of exercising their voting rights.

The law allows parties to have trained observers at polling places, but Trump's motives appear nefarious. A trail of Trump's previous insults and insensitive remarks suggest the certain places he wants watched are in black and Latino neighborhoods where polls show he is losing.



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Trump's accusation of voter fraud in Pa. is offensive: (Original Post) femmocrat Aug 2016 OP
Trump is lying about voter fraud Gothmog Aug 2016 #1
It is just rabble-rousing. There was no voter fraud in PA. femmocrat Aug 2016 #2
It IS offensive, femmocrat. blue neen Aug 2016 #3
When I hear that The Mighty Texas Strike Force / True the Vote people Mc Mike Aug 2016 #4

blue neen

(12,308 posts)
3. It IS offensive, femmocrat.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 12:05 PM
Aug 2016

Trump is portraying Pennsylvania in a very bad light. We are proud of our state's record on voting rights.

We're proud that PA Courts struck down Tom Corbett's and Mike Turzai's bogus Voter ID Law. It was crafted for the sole purpose of restricting DEMOCRATIC voters. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has the nerve to say that the Republicans are going to "watch Pennsylvania"? Priceless!

As your link shows in Post 2 shows, when this was going through the PA Courts in 2012-2014, the Republicans could not show EVEN A SINGLE CASE where so-called voter fraud had occurred. Not one. That blew their argument to hell and back, didn't it?

Infuriating.

Mc Mike

(9,107 posts)
4. When I hear that The Mighty Texas Strike Force / True the Vote people
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 01:41 PM
Aug 2016

are going to come supervise our Pittsburgh polls, I always think of Jack Lambert and Cliff Harris;


Min 1:44 to 2:08.

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