Thread by @Cajsa

Dec 12, 1981 NY Times
Republican claims of voter fraud are their excuse for voter suppression.
#VoteFraudLiesSuppressTheVote

1984 Ronald Reagan AG announces investigation into voter fraud
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1986 GOP Memo Released under court order - shows Black vote has been cut (as planned)
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By the way, the consent decree that came out of this ended in 2020, allowing the RNC to go back to voter caging
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1986 - NY Times
"Ballot Integrity" is designed to suppress Black voter participation. The GOP uses false allegations of fraud to justify voter suppression. Trump is nothing new.
#VoteFraudLiesSuppressTheVote

1992
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1994
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1994
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1996
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1996

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1997
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1997
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1998 One of the worst cases of absentee voter fraud was on behalf of a Republican candidate, Xavier Suarez

2000 Republicans were fine completing absentee ballot applications

2004
#VoterFraudLiesAreVoterSuppression

2004 They never stop lying
#VoterFraudLiesAreVoterSuppression

Back to 1968 - Just 3 years after the Voting Rights Act is passed, here are the Republicans attacking preclearance.

1976 - They tried to overturn votes then, too

In 1977, Jimmy Carter proposed Universal Voter Registration Act. Here it is

Nothing new, Nixon opposed federal aid in voter registration. 1971

Also, there's nothing new in people preventing college students from voting

So, in 1977, Republicans at first supported Carter's Universal Voter Registration. This is from Ron Perlstein's "Reaganland." But the New Right (Reagan's Racist Right) were against it.

Look at Jeff Sessions, in 1985, prosecuting the Marion 3 for helping voters get absentee ballots.

usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

In 2000, lines were so long due to a dubious purge that a judge ordered the voting to stay open until everyone in line voted, but was overturned on appeal.

Ashcroft set all the US Attorneys to investigate voter fraud and prosecute. In 5 years, they had 86 convictions, and not one a conspiracy. Also conflated voter registration with voter fraud. They are not the same

Never let them confuse voter registration fraud with voter fraud.

I have volunteered on voter registration campaigns. One year, I rode the bus with voter registration cards and asked people to register while on the bus. Folks filled it out and handed it back. I was required to turn them all in, even the ones filled out with Mickey Mouse & Elvis

The organization I volunteered with was also required to turn them in. $5000 fine if turned in more than 5 days after it was filled out. NO MATTER THE NAME. Now, some election officials call those examples of election fraud. They are not. That person is not going to show up

to vote as Mickey Mouse. In some states, my organization would have been accused of fraud in press releases, but not in any legal case. They could not indict us for a crime because turning in bogus/phony registrations is required. But if they were Kobach, for example, they might

do a press release. Thankfully, Oregon officials are not like Kobach.

So what about Donald Trump's fraud commission. Hans von Spakovsy, a notorious advocate of voter suppression, touted a Heritage Foundation report from an fraud database of over 1100 cases of election fraud - (going back to 1948) It was easily discredited
brennancenter.org/sites/default/…

Hans von Spakovsky is a real special case. He served some time in the Justice Dept and abused his power to block investigations into civil rights violations and to promote voter suppression laws.
brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

He also discouraged Republicans from allowing accommodations for COVID
propublica.org/article/no-dem…

Kris Kobach is infamous for his efforts to purge voter rolls, so is Brian Kemp. There are many Republicans who participate in efforts to suppress Black vote, but Hans von Spakovsky is special.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…

If you want to read up on voter caging efforts, here is a report from Project Vote.

projectvote.org/wp-content/upl…

Here is an excellent editorial pointing out that the real fraud is the GOP claims about voter fraud.

charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editor…

And voter suppression efforts continue, more sophisticated than ever
publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…

All the Republican claims about voter fraud are really whines that their suppression efforts didn't suppress the vote enough. Believe me, they will be back with more efforts than ever before.
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/d…

Republicans will use Trump's lies about voter fraud to make it harder to vote. They have been doing that for years. Now they have the Supreme Court fully on their side.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…

And if you doubt that, look at this ruling. The Supreme Court said partisan gerrymandering is A-OK.

vox.com/policy-and-pol…

By the way, Sen. John McCain was doing the same shit.
factcheck.org/2008/10/acorn-…

Also, ACORN was framed. That whole Veritas bullshit was bullshit

jstor.org/stable/4098464…

Sen. John McCain, who gets more veneration than he deserved, did the same thing -
factcheck.org/2008/10/acorn-…

And ACORN was framed. It was all bullshit

jstor.org/stable/4098464…

And let's not leave Pence out of this. Here is a case of an organization flagging voter registrations that seemed off and then being accused of the problem they brought to the registrar's attention.
newsday.com/opinion/commen…

Many organizations use paid gatherers for petitions and voter registration. If they get paid per registration or signature, they are incentivized to cheat. Most do not, but a few will. They are not defrauding the voters because fake registrations cannot vote, they don't exist.

They are defrauding the organization that hired them, to get more pay than they earned. Organizations check registrations to compile a GOTV database before submitting them and most flag problem registrations with a sticky note. It's ridiculous that people like Kobach and Lawson

use that to accuse the organization of fraud when the organization is being defrauded by an employee - one who is fired as soon as discovered.

Consider Kris Kobach, the voter purge advocate. He had his chance to prove it in court and ended up looking like the lying ass he is.
propublica.org/article/kris-k…

How bad is Kris Kobach's Operation Crosscheck?

washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

Kris Kobach seems to think if there are two John Smiths who were born on the same date, they are one person.

So it's shitty information that has 200 false positives for 1 correct one, but 28 states still use it

Oops

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cajsa/status/1351012105626017798

OK, there's tons more, but I am tired and CNN's report on Kamala is on, so /fin