There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
1.) Citation needed.
2.) That's ridiculous. Trump's instructions included voiding your mail in ballot while voting in person. In states that do not use Colorado's system someone coming in to void their mail in ballot would be corrected. I'd imagine that after telling an attendant that you wanted to void your mail in ballot you wouldn't be allowed to vote as you just admitted to voting already.
No, the only thing on display here is how eager people are to believe stuff that conforms to their preconceived notions. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I haven't done the same, I might have done it more... Who knows... The best thing to learn from this is skepticism. I'm sure people have fooled me with fake news, but they better do a damn good job because I'm going to look into anything before I accept it as true. HuffPo didn't, and routinely doesn't. Again, a 1-2 minute google search proved otherwise.
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I've been saying quite a lot.
Wait a sec, am I missing something or is the OP (there is no article link?) not even telling who those 31 were actually voting for...?
Last edited by Cerilis; 2017-02-16 at 01:38 AM.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
I googled the first line ("According to State elections director Chris Thomas, at least 31 people in Michigan voted twice during last year’s US presidential election.") and came up with a lot of hits. No telling where the OP got it from but the most popular outlet that Google connected to that phrase was Fox News - Politics.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...-election.html
Say, did anyone else notice,
1. 31 isn't 3-5 million?
2. They never mentioned who these people voted twice for. Remember that lady who voted twice for Trump "because Hillary was cheating so she needed to even the playing field"? Yeah...
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Ten bucks says the majority of them, if not all, voted twice for Trump.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Just like HuffPo said Trump wanted people to vote twice?
I mean forget everything you've read about and approach this with common sense. Hillary Clinton had 66 million votes. Do you really think that 100% of those votes are legitimate? Despite those votes spanning 50 different states with numerous different systems and laws surrounding their voting process, manned by no telling how many thousand people who easily could have thrown in a signature or two, etc.
But yea, all the voting fraud happened in favor of Trump. Forget that over half of the Detroit counties have issues with their tallies and that Detriot voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary, you still have to account for 99% of the other votes.
The imagination and/or trust required to honestly believe what you just typed rivals that of my 4 year old daughter.
Welp.....I can tell you if Trump told people to send in a ballot then physically vote again at a polling place here in Oregon I have bad news for Cheetoh Boy....we ONLY vote by mail...there are no polling places. And if he watched the map on election night he can clearly see...we don't like him, he didn't win here. Mass voter fraud, what a friggin joke.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
You think they would know whom those 31 had voted for?
If they could then that would be a really serious problem, much more grave than a few extra votes that are less numerous than even the counting error one has to assume for this amount of votes.
The whole point of having secret votes is to make it impossible to know who casts their vote for whom. Absolutely no exceptions whatsoever.
Traceable votes are invalid for a reason.