Back in May, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) was one of a handful of Republican governors who bought into far-right conspiracy theories about the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and pulled his state out of the program.
Surprised the GOP in Virginia is not using this a proof of voter fraud.
“Yes we did it, but isn’t that proof of fraud?”
Florida pulled the same trick of purging the voter rolls of felons in the infamous 2000 election. Tens of thousands were deemed as “likely” felons based on very lose matching criteria. Some counties ignored the directive because low-effort checks by county commissioners resulted in them saying the data was unreliable. Still, more than 1000 eligible voters were knocked off the list.
I’m surprised Virginia hasn’t tried using the even more effective butterfly ballot trick too.
Accident my ass.
Yeah, “accidentally”. Suuuuure.
Trumpkin gaming the system in the GOP’s favor, who could have seen that coming?
My favorite is when they go through the voter rolls and take out people whose families named themselves after Founding Fathers.
Jefferson…gone, Franklin…gone, Washington…gone.
Yeah…
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s elections team has admitted in the run-up to pivotal General Assembly elections that it removed nearly 3,400 qualified voters from the state’s rolls, far higher than the administration’s previous estimate of 270.
Something, something…enemy action…
I affirm the adage: “In politics, there are no accidents. Period.”
Important idiom question! The headline says they removed the voters “On Accident”. My kids (not quite teenagers) also say “on accident”; I have always said “by accident”. Is this regional (I grew up in the northeast, they grew up on the west coast) or generational?
The “new” way makes some sense as the opposite of “on purpose” but it still sounds so odd to me. What do you say?
And anyone named Mandela.
By accident. But it’s probably a too-clever-by-half scrambling of “on purpose” and “by accident,” as in “accidentally on purpose,” i.e. “sorry, not sorry.”
“By accident.”
I’m getting fatigued by his indefagitable air-quoting.
Pace yourself. He’s gonna be at this for a while.
Voting restrictions, tossing of valid registrations. All dirty tricks. Which further convinces me Republicans quietly are toast. When you spend this much time cheating, there is a reason.
“Accidentally on purpose”
Here is that election fraud the right keeps screaming about…
Yep, sure, entirely accidental. And definitely no correlation with race or political affiliation.
Oops, just so happens that 3399 of the accidental purges were Black and registered Democrats
Youngkin (R) acknowledged what it called the mistaken removal of about 3,400 voters… five weeks after early voting began
Wait a minute.
We can’t investigate crooked politicians because “campaigns are starting two years before the actual election,” but Republican governors can delete voter rolls AFTER voting has started?
Can any Republican be a capable administrator?