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According to a poll conducted by two academic authors and published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.
Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.
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Half of Republicans Would Back Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday August 11 2017, @05:46AM (14 children)
This story is basically the Daily Hate / Clickbait but whatever.
1. Barring some major reveal of pervasive fraud I'd oppose suspending elections.
2. There IS pervasive fraud, has been for a long time. Kennedy is probably the first POTUS elected on the margin of fraud, but probably not the last.
3. We are regularly told THERE IS NO FRAUD and if you keep looking for it you are RAACCISSSSS!
4. If you want to institute measures to prevent fraud, which as our better remind us does not exist, you are RAACISSSS!
5. Every place we look for fraud we seem to find it. Voters registered in, and voting in, multiple states, illegals voting, dead people voting, people bussed across state lines to transfer votes from "safe" states to ones in play, polling place shenanigans, games with the voter registration systems, hacking attempts, you name it and there have been credible cases.
All of which is a problem but the wrong problem. The problem is universal franchise democracy. It always devolves into the Have Nots voting to have their way with the less numerous Have's stuff, i..e Socialism. Every time.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @05:56AM (1 child)
Would you like to borrow my sig?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @08:50PM
Nah, it got infested by stupid. Thanks for the offer though.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday August 11 2017, @06:15AM
I totally agree on what the problems are. Almost totally. It's like you said, except for the hacking: there is no hacking, that's #FAKENEWS. My Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (I call it the Fraud Commission) is going to say the same thing in its report next year. Which we already knew from the Pew report. It boils down to people voting who shouldn't be. People who should be in school, people who should be at work, people who should go back to Mexico or the state they came from. You're born in North Carolina, you vote in North Carolina. You bring your birth certificate, we check where you were born, that's where you get to vote. Unless you're supposed to be at work or in class. 🇺🇸
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:55AM (2 children)
Daily Hate: I hate jmorris! I hate jmorris! I hate the Buzztard! I hate the Buzztard! I hate khallow! I really do not want to hate khallow, but I do! I hate Runaway, mostly 'cause he was abused when he was young, and has continued to be abused by Fox News. I hate jmorris, only because he is jmorris, and if ever he ceased to be jmorris, I would hate him all the same for having been jmorris. Time's up! Sorry, back to work. I am working on this really cool memo about the reverse discrimination I feel as a Google employee. I think it is really going to go over well.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @02:58PM (1 child)
It's okay, hate just means you really love me but can't admit being wrong to yourself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @08:52PM
Do you need a hug?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday August 11 2017, @05:03PM (5 children)
What's your evidence? Surely, if there's been some sort of massive fraud going on that long, there's some kind of proof out there for it. A lot of that stuff's old enough that it's been declassified by now if that was how it happened.
The reason you're told that there's no fraud is that there's about as much evidence of the existence of something like the alleged organized voter fraud as there is of the existence of God: A bunch of rumors and anecdotes, a few claims by people with much to gain if you believe them, and little-to-nothing of hard facts.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 11 2017, @05:13PM (4 children)
He's right, there *is* pervasive fraud. It is called "gerrymandering."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday August 11 2017, @05:17PM (3 children)
But that's been going on since the days of Mr Elbridge Gerry, after which it was named back in 1810. It sounds like there's a different assertion on the table right now, with no evidence whatsoever.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 11 2017, @05:41PM (2 children)
That's the joke :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:43PM (1 child)
It is hilarious seeing uzzie proclaim his genius and then let a simple joke like that go wooshing over his head.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 13 2017, @04:21AM
In fairness, when your head's 2/3 beak and spends most of its time up a decomposing zebra's asshole, I imagine a *lot* would go over it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:41PM
I've now met enough people who actively lie to themselves and are able to convince themselves that reality is totally different than it is. I see the same thing with you, and apparently there is no solution without deep DEEP therapy.
Stop pushing your twisted view of reality.
(Score: 2) by Tangaroa on Friday August 11 2017, @09:17PM
My dad was union. They rigged the elections by identifying the people who didn't vote and stuffing the ballot boxes with fake votes in their names, then blackmailed the winners with the information that they did not win an honest vote and would take the blame if the news got out.
The last time I went to the voting booth and got a glance at the voter rolls, about 70% of the registered voters were signed up to vote by mail. I suppose it doesn't matter who mails out the ballot. This vulnerability will not be fixed by requiring IDs for the people who vote in person.