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The Dead Do Vote, But Not Early or Often

June 9, 2020 Buck Banks

372

A Washington Post analysis of data collected by three vote-by-mail states found that officials identified just 372 possible cases of double voting or voting on behalf of deceased people out of about 14.6 million votes cast by mail in the 2016 and 2018 general elections, or 0.0025 percent.

The Rigging Lie

October 19, 2016 Buck Banks

We know Donald Trump’s great at provocation,
And he’s even better at prevarication.
But of all of his whoppers,
The one that’s the topper
Is that Democrats, not Russia, are rigging the election.

Kasich Calls Rigged Election Talk ‘Silly’

October 19, 2016 Buck Banks

Look, to say that elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen — that’s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That’s how silly it is.

— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), hitting back against Donald Trump’s claim that the election is “rigged,” CBS News reports.

Three-Quarters of Republicans Believe Election Could Be ‘Rigged’

October 17, 2016 Buck Banks

73%

Of Republicans think the election could be swiped from Donald Trump. Just 17% of Democrats agree with the prospect of massive fraud at the ballot box, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll.

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The Dead Do Vote, But Not Early or Often

372

A Washington Post analysis of data collected by three vote-by-mail states found that officials identified just 372 possible cases of double voting or voting on behalf of deceased people out of about 14.6 million votes cast by mail in the 2016 and 2018 general elections, or 0.0025 percent.

The Rigging Lie

Kasich Calls Rigged Election Talk ‘Silly’

Look, to say that elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen — that’s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That’s how silly it is.

— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), hitting back against Donald Trump’s claim that the election is “rigged,” CBS News reports.

Three-Quarters of Republicans Believe Election Could Be ‘Rigged’

73%

Of Republicans think the election could be swiped from Donald Trump. Just 17% of Democrats agree with the prospect of massive fraud at the ballot box, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“There’s probably a couple of kinks in that slinky.”

— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), quoted by Politico, on President Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to “own” the Gaza Strip.

— On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rubio and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced they’d reached an agreement to “outsource” U.S. prisoners to El Salvador’s mega-prison. The agreement was initially supposed to cover alleged gang members, but was expanded.

— Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones

“Elon can’t do—and won’t do—anything without our approval and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate. Where not appropriate, we won’t.”

— “President Trump on Monday said there were curbs in place to prevent Elon Musk from doing anything in the government without the White House’s blessing, responding to growing confusion about who was overseeing Musk’s push to dismantle multiple agencies,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

— Jonathan Chait

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“The Pentagon expects to send two flights of migrants to Guantanamo Bay this weekend, the first step in President Donald Trump’s plans to use the the base for detaining people swept up in his crackdown on illegal immigration,” Politico reports.