October 25, 2021 ☼ trump ☼ fraud ☼ election-2020 ☼ lies ☼ gop
Source: The Washington Post (Link)
President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead to help defeat Trump’s reelection bid.
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Unlike many of the often-nebulous claims, these ones carried the benefit of often having been rather specific — citing actual dead people, by name, who supposedly voted. This made them actually verifiable.
Nearly a year later, those specific claims have provided a case study in — and a microcosm of — just how ridiculous this whole exercise was.
The specific dead people cited by Trump and his allies have, in most cases, proved to not actually have been cases of dead people’s identities used fraudulently to vote. And in several other cases, in which a dead person was actually recorded as voting, the culprit has been identified: not a systemic effort to inflate vote totals for President Biden, but rather a Republican.
Fraud is negligible and probably committed mostly by folks trying to show how easy it is. It’s not. They get caught.