The 2020 election did expose one fraud: the GOP case for Voter ID. [View all]
Long before Donald Trump began talking about rigged elections, Republicans have told Americans that we urgently need to protect the integrity of the vote. There’s fraud out there, they’ve said, and there’s enough of it to warrant measures such as Voter IDs.
But in perhaps the most closely scrutinized election in history, a heartening and instructive truth has emerged: people don’t want to cheat nearly as much as GOP lawmakers say.
Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, certainly have been looking. Poll watchers have dutifully showed up at precincts across the country, and observers were dispatched to keep an eye the processing and counting of ballots in states with close presidential results. Republican officials also set up hotlines where people could report suspected shenanigans, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick even offered a minimum of $25,000 to anyone in the country “who provides information that leads to an arrest and final conviction of voter fraud.”
If there was an election in which the GOP could prove widespread voter fraud instead of just imagining it, 2020 was it.
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(Raleigh News & Observer)
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