President Trump to launch investigation into alleged voter fraud: “I want the voting process to be legitimate." https://t.co/zjjJ6vMqXU pic.twitter.com/Spb3a9ScQf
— ABC News (@ABC) January 25, 2017
The President-Asterisk certainly comes across here as a well-informed and not at all obsessed-with-internet-rumors individual, does he not? (Spoiler: He does not.)
Imagine, for a second, the pressures that Justice Department officials tasked to do this will face to produce the desired results. https://t.co/jTWnZy0pV6
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 25, 2017
We don't even have to, the Bush Administration did the same thing – it even fired US Attorneys who (truthfully) reported there was no fraud https://t.co/yDU1eMauVQ
— (((Gautam Mukunda))) (@gmukunda) January 25, 2017
Excellent ProPublica thread, if you need a summary to forward to naive family & acquaintances:
.@seanspicer 2/ Electionland monitored polling places across the U.S. If millions had voted illegally, we’d have known. https://t.co/GkhQ5Wcxzc
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) January 24, 2017
.@seanspicer @POLITICOMag 7/ Quality studies on fraud haven’t found any. This looked at a billion ballots & found only 31 instances of fraud https://t.co/HetrgaNtCB
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) January 24, 2017
As I've noted before, voting integrity better in this election than ever before. Zero evidence of fraud. https://t.co/BBS8NVcACB
— David Becker (@beckerdavidj) January 24, 2017
These allegations are basically a false flag so Republicans can engage in even more voter suppression https://t.co/u4Y180CoRW
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 25, 2017
Going into the future, this is all they've got: suppress the right to vote. Demographic trends block all other paths for the GOP. https://t.co/Kf0Hthw5dN
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) January 25, 2017
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Reminder: There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election. Three were Trump voters. https://t.co/peeTaEOxWy
— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) January 25, 2017
The press should just keep repeating that Trump voters accounted for 75% of voter fraud and make Spicer have to point out it was 3 people.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 25, 2017
For those keeping count, I've found that Bannon, Mnuchin, Priebus, Kushner, and Tiffany Trump are all registered to vote in two locations.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) January 26, 2017