With the mass mail in balloting and now O’Keefe’s footage and everything voter fraud has been my number one concern this election with Dem’s trying to steal the election using fraudulent voting. But I just heard Rudy Giuliani the other day talking about it and it made me think why have we accepted the levels of voter fraud that has been happening for so long? He was talking about back when he first ran for mayor and he asked advisors in NYC how many votes he had to win by to overcome the dead vote (which everyone knew was massive in NYC) and he was told he needed to win by 50,000 votes to overcome it. After his first term and trying to deal with fraud some his advisors told him it was now 30,000 he had to win by. I know just the past few elections that I’ve been old enough to be engaged in more, the dead vote has been discussed in each one (although not made a big deal), years ago O’Keefe was offered AG Eric Holders Ballot, and Chicago in 2016 had more votes than voters so this election isn’t the first time its come up and yet we’ve done very little about it.
So it’s obvious voter fraud is a big issue and republicans have never made a huge deal out of it for some reason, why is that? PA where I am from, although I just moved to VA, has always been a swing state that is only swing because of Philly and Pittsburgh. Well I just heard that its been well known of huge fraud and dead votes in Philly for decades. Why would the republican party not fight that more? Republicans could have possibly had a consistent hold in PA for decades now if not for that and wouldn’t be suffering from truly terrible people like Dictator Wolf who is running the state now.
So my push here is we need to start making this a much bigger focus and taking it to court more. We always complain about the media bias and how conservatives would have a 20% plus advantage if the media was just fair. Thats true and we should fight that front but media bias is at least legal and a fairer fight, this fraudulent voting is not. Obviously this next month and the weeks after the election republicans will be fighting against fraudulent voting since its become such a big issue this election, but we need to make sure come January that we don’t forget about it. We can’t let the dead vote decide elections anymore, or double voters, or people buying votes like in Minneapolis. The security of our republic depends on fair elections and we need to start making that a bigger issue.
3 replies on “Why for decades have Republicans never made a bigger deal about voter fraud?”
I would suspect, as you do, that part of the lack of work is due to the squishy nature of the GOP generally, but also in part the utter lack of initiative on the part of the infotainment media (using Steve Green’s name) to do any investigation and the generally demonrat leaning AGs and DAs that do not do much.
Part might also be when we’ve finally gotten through the gauntlet and the election is OVER! that we’re generally to tired to go digging through the results to find all of the lawbreaking and really push it on the prosecutors and get those convictions. If the “news” made a big deal out of the few cases there are and promoted the “do it and do the time” line used for other crimes, the appearance might be enough to dissuade a few.
I share your frustration. I became a member of Judicial Watch – which has been suing individual states, with steady but slow progress, to force them to clean up their voter rolls – years ago for that reason, in particular. Election integrity is hugely important.
You are right, and this is a textbook example of why leadership matters.
As Bill has said several times, paraphrasing Lincoln, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
If Republicans make a push to overcome the voter fraud, it will be solely because Donald Trump has made it an issue. O’Keefe gets some credit too, but if Trump didn’t get the message out, it would wither on the vine.
The dead vote hasn’t been going on for a few decades, it’s been a century. At least.