G.O.P. Concocts New Fake Threat: Vote Fraud by Undocumented Immigrants

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/us/gop-vote-fraud-immigrants.html

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https://archive.ph/R0udt


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Six years after former President Donald J. Trump paved his way to the White House on nativist and xenophobic appeals to white voters, the 2,000-mile dividing line between Mexico and the United States has once again become a fixation of the Republican Party.

But the resurgence of the issue on the right has come with a new twist: Republican leaders and candidates are increasingly claiming without basis that unauthorized immigrants are gaining access to the ballot box.

Voter fraud is exceptionally rare, and allegations that widespread numbers of undocumented immigrants are voting have been repeatedly discredited. Yet that fabricated message — capitalizing on a concocted threat to advance Mr. Trump’s broader lie of stolen elections — is now finding receptive audiences in more than a dozen states across the country, including several far from the U.S.-Mexico border.

In Macomb County, Mich., where Republicans are fiercely split between those who want to investigate the 2020 election and those who want to move on, many voters at the county G.O.P. convention this month said they feared that immigrants were entering the country illegally, not just to steal jobs but also to steal votes by casting fraudulent ballots for Democrats.

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Ummmmm..... This isn't new and no matter how many times they vomit this baseless shit, it's not true.

We live in the stupidest times.

[world wide wally]

1. They're back on the border wall

Soon, the caravans will be invading us again. (then they will magically disappear again)

[Tickle]

3. There are democrats in the

the border states talking about the surge

[Turbineguy]

2. Undocumented Immigrants would vote for republicans.

Republicans are the one who have no regard for the law.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Yeah, they've been claiming this since the late 80's IIRC

Never been any significant evidence thereof, but we know they purposefully live in a curated fantasy world.

[Mariana]

8. Yeah, this is hardly "new". nt.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. I "would" say "they have so little confidence in our political process, BUT

they KNOW this is pure bullshit. It is just another way to point fingers at the Democrats and condemn us.

[onecaliberal]

7. republicans are the ONLY ONES committing voter fraud.

Voter suppression. Piss wig officials voted in 3 different states.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Races they lose in 2022 they're going to blame on illegal aliens voting

You wait and see.

[CrackityJones75]

10. New? That ain't new.