2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBefore a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/ <http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/>Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
Starting in 2013 just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOPcontrolled states.
The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,
The GOPs Stealth War on Voters <http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-expose-gops-secret-plan-steal-vote/>, 8/24/2016.
Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922
Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824
Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393
madamvlb
(495 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)two different states aren't voting in both. I would track Florida snowbirds to battleground states to see if it's a real problem.
Republicans aren't known for just cheating in one way.
madamvlb
(495 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)Okay. I'll vouch for you.
radical noodle
(8,010 posts)If you get one in Florida, then they destroy the one you had elsewhere. That's what happened when we moved from Indiana to Florida.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)spending a bundle and a whole day to cast one or two extra votes, it's a real pain to just drive from your Montclair, NJ home to your beach house in Westhampton to cast those extra votes.
If there are any votes like that, they are probably irrelevant.
Hugin
(33,177 posts)By far, not the only piece.
Bettie
(16,118 posts)but how? They control everything and will continue to remove people from the voting rolls, probably faster than we can get them back on.
Guess when the Orange Walking Nightmare kept jabbering about the thing being rigged, he was telling the truth, we just misunderstood what he meant.
Botany
(70,552 posts)Every state that used Crosscheck should have their outcomes challenged and
thrown out. People's Constitutionally protected vote was taken away.
Contact the D. o J., Democratic Senators, and the useless DNC. We need to
raise a stink knowing that the media will do its best to hide the story about
a dirty and rigged election.
Bettie
(16,118 posts)I'm having cognitive difficulties since this election.
I have a direction and a word processing program and the internets (all of them).
Time to write some letters and do some research (not in that order).
Botany
(70,552 posts)I worked during election day and I was never more sure of the outcome then that day.
W/that being said I still can't watch the news or read a paper, my sleep comes in small
stages, and my good times I am in a fog or numb from drink and in my bad times I feel
waves of pain.
But still we must fight and any state that used "crosscheck" should have their outcomes
voided.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Yeah, Drumpf... the election was rigged, all right.
mopinko
(70,178 posts)by hacking this place.
srsly, who has a better rep than du for digging into fishy results?
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)DU was hacked hours before the first polls closed, and yet that hate video seemed certain that Trump was going to win. They were planning to steal the election and knew DU would be all over it. Trump was right when he said 'this election is rigged like you wouldn't believe.'
Botany
(70,552 posts)yup. It was a coup and our media will not cover it.
I can't put my fingers on it but it was a sophisticated multi level action.
They had to keep the election close enough so in the end they could steal it.
And to that end we had unceasing and unending investigations into nothing,
Comey and the FBI with their last minute email scandal, Russia and Wiki
leaks doing whatever, and 30 years of selling hate about the Clintons from
the right wing.
We need to demand that the 2016 is really looked @ and that any state that
used "crosscheck" have their elections voided out.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)coddling up to him, like maybe we can work with him, and of that BS. The country is going down a path that is so dangerous. Just looking at his picks, those surrounding him, and others in the wing, should be enough to scare the majority of people.
barbtries
(28,810 posts)it was bad with gw but this.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)The argument of vote-rigging that was leveled during the "elections" of Bush II doesn't apply here.
There is no precedent in the history of this country for the election of Donald Trump. His candidacy, which was not serious, was made serious because it was entirely manufactured by the media. It was done for ad revenue and ratings.
Hillary Clinton wasn't good for the bottom line. Trump was. She had to be taken out as a result. There was 24/7 focus on non-existent "scandals" because the media moguls WANTED Trump.
You have to remember the GOP party bigwigs DESPISE Trump. Most of them refused to campaign for him, and many of them adamantly refused to vote for him. They hate his guts because they KNOW what went down during those GOP primaries.
Almost everybody here was focused on the Clinton-Sanders side of the primaries. They should have been paying close attention to the GOP side instead.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)That's Attorney General of the US. This isn't shaping up to be a White House cabinet, it's looking more and more like a fucking criminal conspiracy!!!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Bullshit!
We can lose the god references also.
Time for honesty.
ancianita
(36,130 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,135 posts)He is like the harbinger of political corruption. Eight years of breathing freely and back to detention.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)They were gerrymandering and eliminating voters like crazy yet the DP failed to stop that.
The DP is also too weak to demand that the election was rigged and results should be voided in those three states. If not all where this took place.
The country is now in the hands of dedicated maniacs and criminals.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)And that plan of purging people will continue and grow. Coupled with gerrymandering, they will remain in power regardless of how terrible they are in office.