According to President Trump, millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. That, Trump says, explains why he lost the popular vote by over three million ballots. As with most things, the president offers no proof of his allegations, but scores of his supporters accept his lies as absolute fact. How pervasive is the […]
Just five days after he was sworn in, Donald Trump once again returned to the issue of why he had lost the popular vote by some 3 million ballots, tweeting out: I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and…. […]
According to Donald Trump, Gregg Phillips of True the Vote is an absolute expert on the topic of voter fraud in the United States. Phillips claims he will soon be presenting evidence that anywhere from 3-5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. And yet we now discover that Phillips, for all of his […]
Perhaps you were wondering exactly where Donald Trump got his bizarre (not to mention patently false) figure that some 3 million people voted illegally in 2016 and therefore caused him to lose the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. The man behind the dubious claims is named Greg Phillips, and now this con man (no wonder […]
If you thought the intimidation of black voters was something that disappeared with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, then you need to pay a visit to the small town of Sparta, Georgia, where police officers are now going door-to-door and challenging the voting rights of African-American voters in Sparta. Specifically, the Hancock County […]
Republicans love to talk about freedom, democracy, and other red, white, and blue terms they believe will motivate their base to go out and vote when election day rolls around. Yet it’s these same Republicans who then turn around and pass restrictive voter ID laws designed for the sole reason of limiting who can vote […]
For years now, Republicans across the country have been passing ever more restrictive laws requiring registered voters to show “approved” forms of identification before they can vote. In some states, you can only use a state-approved and issued ID card, which is only available at a few select locations and sometimes means a person has […]
Maybe you missed it in all the excitement over Pope Francis visiting the United States, but earlier this week GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee actually said he doesn’t want “stupid people”–and by that he means those who won’t cast their ballots for him–to vote at all. But this is hardly the first instance of a […]