More about voter fraud and 2018

I am very concerned that Trump will say there was voter fraud if Republicans lose the House of Representatives in 2018.

Look at the false accusations from right-wing supporters in 2012.  They’ll say similar stuff this year if they lose.

This poll from September 2016 shows that

1. Thirty-five percent say there is a great deal of election fraud in the United States, 39 percent say there is some election fraud, and only 24 percent say there is hardly any.
2. Forty-one percent are very concerned and 35 percent are somewhat concerned about how susceptible the country’s election system is to hacking. Just 23 percent express little concern.
3. Only 4 in 10 have a lot of confidence that the vote counts will be accurate this year. Three in 10 are moderately confident, and another 3 in 10 have little or no confidence in this year’s vote counts.

Then there’s the threat from Russia.  However, not everyone is concerned about that.  Only 34% of Republicans think Russia will attempt to influence the 2018 elections while 80% of Democrats think it is likely.  The poll also shows that “Eight in ten Americans, or 79 percent, are also concerned that the country’s voting systems might be vulnerable to computer hackers, including nearly half (47 percent) who are very concerned.”

The bottom line is that many people already distrust US election results.  Trump will fan this distrust and try to discredit elections that are not favorable to him.

He is also not taking any leadership role to prevent Russian interference since it will help him.  Republicans in general are not concerned about the Russians which is incredible to me since we know they interfered in the 2016 elections.

There’s going to be something for everyone to be skeptical about in the 2018 Congressional elections.  Sad!