Voter ID laws, voter-roll purges, shutting down polling stations in poor/black neighborhoods -- ALL of it reflects their own declining confidence in their ability to win elections fairly, by convincing a majority of the public of the value of their politics and policies.
Note that this is entirely one-sided. The Dems are doing nothing at all to come between R-leaning demographic groups and the polls.
N.B.: All of it is also a solution to a non-problem. Election fraud is one subject where there is NO POSSIBILITY WHATSOEVER that the Pubs are right, or even have any points worth considering.
Only two forms of election fraud are possible. One is in-person fraud -- a legally ineligible person voting. And THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN. A particular instance does come up very occasionally, but never on a scale that could possibly change the outcome of any election. The Pubs have been trying for decades now to find some evidence to the contrary and they always fail -- the W Admin even fired several U.S Attorneys because they failed. Rick Wilson, one of the founders of the Lincoln Project, recounted in one of his books that True the Vote tried to hire his political consulting firm -- he researched the matter and decided he couldn't take their money, because he would have nothing to work with -- he could find no evidence at all, anywhere, that True the Vote's complaints about voter fraud had any grounding in reality.
The other form is ballot-box stuffing. Counting the votes dishonestly. That's a form of fraud you cannot pull off without help INSIDE the elections office. Which means you cannot do it on any large scale. The American election system is hyperfederalized -- it is run at the county level, and even a state Secretary of State has almost no control over the process. To cheat in a presidential election in that way, you would have to recruit help inside 3,000+ county election offices, or at least some significant fraction of that number; and do it without anybody in any of those offices blowing the whistle. It can't be done.
A good source here is The Voting Wars, by Richard Hasen, who is an elections lawyer (and no, you are not surprised to find out that is an actual legal specialty).
Note that this is entirely one-sided. The Dems are doing nothing at all to come between R-leaning demographic groups and the polls.
N.B.: All of it is also a solution to a non-problem. Election fraud is one subject where there is NO POSSIBILITY WHATSOEVER that the Pubs are right, or even have any points worth considering.
Only two forms of election fraud are possible. One is in-person fraud -- a legally ineligible person voting. And THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN. A particular instance does come up very occasionally, but never on a scale that could possibly change the outcome of any election. The Pubs have been trying for decades now to find some evidence to the contrary and they always fail -- the W Admin even fired several U.S Attorneys because they failed. Rick Wilson, one of the founders of the Lincoln Project, recounted in one of his books that True the Vote tried to hire his political consulting firm -- he researched the matter and decided he couldn't take their money, because he would have nothing to work with -- he could find no evidence at all, anywhere, that True the Vote's complaints about voter fraud had any grounding in reality.
The other form is ballot-box stuffing. Counting the votes dishonestly. That's a form of fraud you cannot pull off without help INSIDE the elections office. Which means you cannot do it on any large scale. The American election system is hyperfederalized -- it is run at the county level, and even a state Secretary of State has almost no control over the process. To cheat in a presidential election in that way, you would have to recruit help inside 3,000+ county election offices, or at least some significant fraction of that number; and do it without anybody in any of those offices blowing the whistle. It can't be done.
A good source here is The Voting Wars, by Richard Hasen, who is an elections lawyer (and no, you are not surprised to find out that is an actual legal specialty).
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