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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jun 15, 2026, 02:10 PM Monday

Put Up or Shut Up: Republicans on Voter Fraud

By Chris Vance


-Democracy is based on willingness to accept defeat. If political combatants refuse to concede when they lose but instead resort to violence, or claim the election was stolen when they have no proof, democracy itself is at risk. Republicans, at the behest of a little man with a fragile ego who can’t accept that he lost an election, having been baselessly screaming fraud since 2020. They are getting ready to do it again this year. It has to stop.

Republicans went to court over 60 times after the 2020 election alleging fraud. They lost every time. Numerous nonpartisan investigations have found zero evidence of fraud. But still the Big Lie continues. Even Washington state Republicans absurdly claim elections they lose by hundreds of thousands of votes are somehow rigged.

American elections are not perfect; nothing built by human hands is. Every election there are going to be a very, very small number of mistakes made. But there is zero evidence – ZERO – indicating that any election results have been changed due to voter fraud. If you actual understand how elections are conducted, you will see how implausible voter fraud is today.

I have seen elections up close and personal. I have observed ballot counting and signature verification numerous times as a campaign staffer and a party chairman. As a King County Councilmember, I served more than once on the Canvassing Board, the ad hoc body that oversees the election in each county and certifies the results. And in 2004, as Chairman of the Washington state Republican Party, I was intimately involved in one of the closest elections in American history. More on that later.

https://www.postalley.org/2026/06/09/put-up-or-shut-up-republicans-on-voter-fraud/

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Put Up or Shut Up: Republicans on Voter Fraud (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
Certain that they will call this guy a RINO -- but he is correct small mistakes at the margins JT45242 Monday #1

JT45242

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1. Certain that they will call this guy a RINO -- but he is correct small mistakes at the margins
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 02:38 PM
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390 votes worth of variance from some kind of error out of 2.8 million votes total. That is a 0.01% difference. Those were not fraudulent votes based on the article. They had wonky signatures on mail in ballots, some people voting who shouldn't have, etc.

Somehow, facts won't matter.

Somehow, the fact that the overwhelming amount of people who have been convicted for voting morethan once in the last 10 years have been registered republicans won't matter.

That there are several Republican members of congress and the house who aren't legitimate residents of where they represent.

Iowa republicans are running a guy for Governor who doesn't live in Iowa. But, apparently that kind of fraud is OK.

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