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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

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    The venn diagram between voter fraud accusators and voter fraud committers is just a fucking circle.

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      This is why they accuse the Democrats of cheating to win the election. They cheated and still lost so the only explanation must be that the Democrats cheated more! (It can’t possibly be that they actually lost. Nope. Not at all!)

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    Finally found all that voter fraud the conservatives keep screaming is out there. I’m sure they’ll condemn this in the harshest of terms, right guys?

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    It’s funny, I always only hear about Republicans committing voter fraud. Never democrats.

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    All that Republican screaming about voter fraud and stolen elections can’t quite hide the fact that most cases of actual fraud seem to come from Republicans.

    Libs, Dems, fellow Dudes - lend me your earpods. Dig this big crux: republiQans absolutely DO NOT respond to reasoned arguments. It’s been working like magic since the 1980’s.

    Let’s STOP pretending that we’re going to convince any republiQans of anything and understand and accept that they are seriously brainwashed cultists who can not get out of it (due to the brainwashing and the cult).

    Articles with this spin - “when will republiQans learn?” - are so aggravating because IT NEVER ENDS - it simply builds to a crescendo prior to the election, republiQans vote to destroy everything good again, and the cycle restarts.

    Trump SHOULD have broken this. It is OUR fault that he didn’t. Because we want discussion to work. We’re not fanatical crusaders constantly harping on people around us (or elected representatives), and we think reason and discussion should carry the day.

    It hasn’t for a very long time, and let’s now understand that it won’t.

    Let’s stop thinking our republiQan neighbors are going to figure anything out. Until their propaganda hypnosis is broken (and again, let’s not kid ourselves, it’s only getting stronger), we are ALONE out here in democracy.

    Justice, Environment, Healthcare, Education. They’re always going to try to destroy these things. Stop hoping. Start talking about events with a new perspective. The reasonable Republican - if it was ever a thing - is GONE. No new information will change them.