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Phony War on Voter Fraud Looks Even Phonier
Low U.S. turnout, not election theft, is the real scandal.
Republicans have a problem with this.
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When he talks about “rigged” elections and calls for voter-identification laws to prevent fraud, Donald Trump is squarely within the Republican mainstream. The party has made passing those laws one of its highest priorities in state after state.
Yet as the evidence continues to show, the type of fraud that voter ID laws could prevent is basically non-existent.