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    Prosecutors said Taylor, a Vietnam native, approached numerous voters of Vietnamese heritage with limited English comprehension and filled out and signed election forms and ballots on behalf of them and their English-speaking children.

    Keep in mind he still lost his election.

    While it’s incredibly rare for fraud to affect more than a handful of votes, the frequency with which Republicans do it isn’t a coincidence. It’s a direct result of a party that is undermining democracy at every turn and—importantly—telling its voters that the other side is going to cheat anyway.

    It’s more of the “I am able to cheat, so everyone must be cheating” Logic that gets people into trouble. Then they realize that they are the only ones cheating

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      Then they realize that they are the only ones cheating

      Do they?

      Either they never believed the bullshit, or they’re so completely deluded by it that they just believe it’s unfair that they are the only ones being punished when the other side “does so much worse”

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      @HuddaBudda @FlyingSquid He didn’t win a congressional seat, but he *did* win his County Supervisor seat, which tbh in some ways is worse (big fish, little pond). His wife committed fraud in both elections, and >
      “Jeremy Taylor is an unindicted co-conspirator in his wife’s voter fraud scheme. Kim Taylor was found guilty of 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration, and 23 counts of fraudulent voting.”

      DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/woman-convicted-voter-fraud-scheme