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@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 1/7》If you Democrats really believed that that voter impersonation fraud was mostly by Republicans, then you wouldn't oppose all efforts to stop it.

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 2/7》There's good reason to believe voter fraud, including voter impersonation & cross-state voting, benefits Democrats, because it's a crime, and criminals are more likely to commit crimes than are law-abiding citizens, and we know criminals tend to register and vote Democratic.

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 3/7》That doesn’t mean all voter impersonation and cross-state voting is Democratic, but statistics show felons are much more likely to support Democrats than Republicans. Some politicians might not admit that, but they all know it.

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 4/7》That’s presumably why most Democrat politicians support restoring felons’ voting rights, and also why most Democrat politicians oppose measures which would prevent voter fraud.

Here's a paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 5/7》A 2015 Philadelphia Inquirer article summarized the paper's conclusions. It showed that, “a majority of ex-felons registered post-incarceration as Democrats. The breakdown was… NY 61.5% Dem 9% Rep; NM 51.9% Dem 18.9% Rep; and NC 54.6% Dem 10.2% Rep.”
inquirer.com/philly/news/po…

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 6/7》Those are huge ratios. Convicted felons, after their release, were far more likely to register as Democrats than as Republicans:
2.7x more likely in NM
6.8x more likely in NY
5.4x more likely in NC

@illcommunicato @carhauler71 @myfox8 7/7》Those are registration statistics, not votes, but it goes without saying that registered Democrats mostly vote for Democrats, and registered Republicans mostly vote for Republicans.

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