The Pubs are only PRETENDING not to trust the process

[Politruk]

The Pubs pretend to take a conspiratorial view of voting, because that gives them an excuse to cheat and suppress votes and block access and litigate the counting process, because they no longer believe they can win honestly.

 

[Politruk]

It is fundamentally dishonest -- and yet this attitude has infected the whole party, from coast to coast and at every level. This points up how utterly corrupt, cynical and amoral the GOP has become since 1964 (generally accepted as the start date of American "movement conservatism").

 

[Saint_Ann]

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." Richard Petty?

 

[Politruk]

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." Richard Petty?

It's all nothing to do with auto racing.

 

[Politruk]

This sort of dishonesty, for instance.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Everything about the MAGAs and Trump is pretense. He pretends to always win and they pretend they’re heroes for supporting him.

Although there are a few loons who believe the stolen election lies. True wackos. Trump attracts the mentally ill.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." Richard Petty?

That sounds more like Smokey Yunick.

 

[Politruk]

Everything about the MAGAs and Trump is pretense. He pretends to always win and they pretend they’re heroes for supporting him.

Although there are a few loons who believe the stolen election lies. True wackos. Trump attracts the mentally ill.

But it predates Trump. The W Administration fired several U.S. Attorneys for failing to find evidence of voter fraud.

 

[Politruk]

In fact, it goes back further than that. To the 1980s.

In 1980, Republican politician Paul Weyrich said, "I don't want everybody to vote. ... our leverage in the elections ... goes up as the voting populace goes down."

In 1981 and 1986, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent out letters to African-American neighborhoods. When tens of thousands of them were returned undeliverable, the party successfully challenged the voters and had them deleted from voting rolls. The violation of the Voting Rights Act got the RNC taken to court by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). As a result of the case, the RNC entered a consent decree, which prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that targeted minorities from conducting mail campaigns to "compile voter challenge lists".[4]

The RNC sent letters to predominantly-black neighborhoods in New Jersey in 1981. When 45,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the committee compiled a challenge list to remove those voters from the rolls. The RNC then sent off-duty law enforcement officials to the polls and hung posters in heavily black neighborhoods warning that violating election laws is a crime. The effect was to suppress or intimidate black voters.

In Louisiana in 1986, the RNC tried to have 31,000 voters, mostly black, removed from the rolls when a party mailer was returned. Again, the action was challenged and dismissed. The consent decrees that resulted prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that target minorities or from conducting mail campaigns to "compile voter challenge lists."[5]