GOP’s terrible proposed election police

Florida Republicans proposed a new bill this week that would create a police unit dedicated to tracking down voter fraud. https://t.co/V4SeGsz6JV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 2, 2022

Analysis | The latest GOP idea: A police force to ferret out voter fraud https://t.co/Hwsv9xhF7V
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 23, 2022

Republican politicians are proposing to establish police forces to hunt for election crimes, a category of offenses that experts say is tiny at best. Critics warn these efforts could be used to intimidate people from registering and voting. https://t.co/KMG6iIcxBq
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 22, 2022

Wondering how many of these "police forces" would survive the preclearance process under the Voting Rights Act, which existed from 65 until GOP SCOTUS majority gutted it in #Shelby 2013. In 06 every Senate R voted to extend preclearance. Last week, every Senate R filibustered it https://t.co/4daIJflTZI
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 22, 2022

Voting rights advocates say enhanced election policing proposed by the Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia and Florida are unnecessary and could chill participation in elections.

Here's what to know https://t.co/nm2f5twnRZ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 15, 2022

It may be too late for election reform

Better late than never. Biden, Harris and DOJ should have said something before states passed bad election laws. It’s late now, hopefully not too late.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 11, 2022

Republicans lie about voter fraud

.@AP journalists spent months reviewing every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Trump. They found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.https://t.co/rX63SeJlYu
— Julie Pace (@JuliePace) December 14, 2021

Analysis: The Trump team and Fox News alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or actually involved Republicans. https://t.co/FL7mGBptGp
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 25, 2021

Republicans last year cited this case of a mail ballot cast in the name of a dead woman as concrete evidence of voter fraud.

It joins a list of other fraud cases that turn out to be perpetrated by R voters or those simply confused about voting laws. https://t.co/1G5Vqu8C15
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) October 23, 2021

Republican official in Ohio faces charge for voting twice in November election. https://t.co/9RZz8wQvgw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2021

Finally, the evidence of “massive vote fraud” surfaces. A PA man sentenced for casting a ballot in the name of his deceased mother.
For Trump!https://t.co/Vic4vvxf62
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 2, 2021

Remember when Ken Paxton offered a million dollar reward for proof of voter fraud and came away with … this? https://t.co/1T7Yxsx3NX
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 31, 2021

16 alleged cases of voter fraud out of 160 million votes in 2020: let's pass 389 new voter suppression laws

5 dead, 140 injured & 450 charged in worst attack on American democracy since War of 1812: who needs Jan 6 commission?
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 28, 2021

Never forget that the only major case of absentee ballot fraud in recent elections was committed by Republicans in North Carolina
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 28, 2020

Three Republican residents of The Villages arrested for casting multiple 2020 votes https://t.co/TYauY4fJqG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 14, 2021

Republicans have committed individual voter fraud

NV dead-person-voting case touted by the GOP: Republican ended up pleading guilty.

PA dead-person-voting case touted by Trump campaign: Trump voter ended up pleading guilty.

This crime is rare – but when it happens, it’s not a Democrat-specific thing:https://t.co/xDMxJRUSTT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 21, 2021

Voter fraud is such a myth that its most outspoken critics have to commit the fraud themselves to find an example of it. https://t.co/PZ8QxjkPP1
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 17, 2021

.@chrislhayes: "This case, a supposed voter fraud, turned out to be bogus just like pretty much every other voter fraud claim the right made." https://t.co/uG6eyiHpia
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 22, 2021

In case after case from 2020, it turns out that Republicans were the ones misbehaving at the ballot box. https://t.co/W1MXp52fv4
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) November 18, 2021

Update on phony claims of election fraud in Georgia

Will the 2020 election ever be over? Will the Republicans ever accept it if they lose a future presidential election?

What they’re doing based on non-existent fraud is wrong and dangerous.

Glad that's settled. Now what about the investigation of Trump pressuring Georgia officials to "find" him 11,780 votes? https://t.co/R0kF5YKFxi
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 22, 2021

"There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this," Richard Donoghue wrote back to Jeffrey Clark w/ acting AG Rosen cced on the email, later adding, "…from where I stand, this is not even within the realm of possibility."https://t.co/LDgkm7S9hh
— Alex Mallin (@alex_mallin) August 3, 2021

Georgia Republicans inch closer to a takeover of elections in state's largest county https://t.co/XaeI4PUtBZ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 31, 2021

Republicans lawmakers in Georgia have requested a performance review of the top election official in Fulton County, the first step in a possible takeover of the heavily Democratic county’s electoral process by the Republican-led legislature. https://t.co/RhfQF8byOj
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 30, 2021

Impact of Georgia phony election fraud claims

Trump has been supposedly been banned by Twitter but his enablers and flacks keep tweeting his "statements" that sound like tweets. So it seems he's found a work-around.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 14, 2021

For all those apologists who insist there's no partisan motive, this is an inconvenient truth behind the new GOP legislation severely limiting availability of drop boxes. https://t.co/Z8HPEticSw
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 13, 2021

A federal judge declined to block parts of Georgia's sweeping voting law from taking effect a week before runoff elections for state legislative seats. The decision was based on the imminence of the elections, the judge said, not the merits of the case. https://t.co/pnVUklGxf8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 7, 2021

This is important provision of GA election law to understand: providing for state intervention in county election admin. https://t.co/7hEWmK9ggU
— Dr. Jennifer McCoy (@jlynnmccoy) June 26, 2021

A Georgia judge dismisses most of a lawsuit seeking an inspection of Fulton County's absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election https://t.co/Nb9K50f8Os
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 25, 2021

Michigan Republicans find no voter fraud

This won’t sit well with Trump or his cult. Maybe they’ll storm the Michigan state house again. The bad news is Republicans want to use the unfounded claims to make it harder to vote.

Michigan Republican legislators issued a report finding no widespread fraud and Biden won. The only “audit” Republicans will accept is the one showing Trump won https://t.co/EeuLWjhMjF
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 14, 2021

Michigan Senate GOP leader Mike Shirkey, last week, defending election report that found no evidence of fraud: “The effort by those who are echoing Trump’s scenarios, I just think that they’re, frankly they’re actually destroying the fabric of our nation, and it’s a bit shameful”
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) July 6, 2021

Wow. “A long-awaited report on the 2020 election from a GOP-controlled Michigan Senate committee recommended that Democratic AG Dana Nessel consider investigating individuals who pushed false claims ‘to raise money or publicity for their own ends.’” 1/ https://t.co/pNcCipVtl0
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) July 3, 2021

A report from a Republican-led Michigan State Senate committee debunks false claims about the 2020 election perpetuated by Trump allies in Michigan and other states. https://t.co/074z7yaTPn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 23, 2021

In a highly anticipated report, the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Cmte. rebutted former President Trump's voter fraud claims, debunking claims of malfeasance in the state's election last fall and affirming that President Biden was victorious. https://t.co/r65ueDk2n0
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 23, 2021

Michigan Republicans did a point-by-point debunking of the false Trumpworld claims you might recall: thousands of dead people voting in Detroit! Dominion stealing votes in Antrim County! All nonsense, as was (or should have been) clear all along. https://t.co/QOnwqGMU4k
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2021

Opinion | Susan Del Percio: Michigan Republicans reject Trump's election claims but still act like they're true. https://t.co/0zONi4RmcC – @NBCNewsTHINK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 28, 2021

Opinion | @BarbMcQuade: Trump’s disinformation campaign that the election was stolen from him continues to shape public policy. He has demonstrated that a lie, if repeated often enough, will be believed by many people. https://t.co/320yDKuReK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 26, 2021

"It confirmed what over 250 audits, countless election officials, numerous court opinions and the majority of Michiganders also know to be true — that our election was secure, successful," MI Sec. of State Benson says about a new report by the state's GOP.https://t.co/pXdoUA2YB2
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 25, 2021

Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock criticizes timing of Senate GOP panel report on seven-month investigation that found no evidence of widespread fraud in the state's 2020 election. Says Trump advisors "wanted a different approach from our legislature." pic.twitter.com/6hmGAtW1E6
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) June 25, 2021

The phony Arizona audit

Do you really think the phony audit will find there was no fraud? They already decided there was fraud before they started. Other states are visiting them and this attempt to overturn the election is spreading. https://t.co/NaQPfdamt4
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 9, 2021

Legislators from SEVEN states have now visited the Arizona audit, or will today. Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks was just on the floor, Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase is coming by in a bit. "I’ll be bringing this information back to Virginia," she says.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 10, 2021

Dead voters for Trump

Two people are known to have voted for dead people in 2020.

One guy in PA voted for his dead mom.
One guy in CO is accused of murdering his wife, and then voting for her.

Both voted their dead relatives for Trump.

In summary, his statement is a total lie. pic.twitter.com/0GLsjSPura
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 27, 2021

Amazing poll on election fraud vs. voter suppression

The fraud issue is made up. Voter suppression by Republicans is real. This shows how big the divide is between the two parties. Unity will not be possible with splits like this where one side believes nonsense.

Which do you think is a bigger problem in US elections: voter fraud or voter suppression via Quinnipiac poll:

Democrats:
84% suppression
13% fraud

Republicans:
11% suppression
82% fraud
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 15, 2021