Election integrity units established or expanded in six states after Trump’s loss obtained only 47 convictions during a period in which tens of millions of votes were cast.

As Donald Trump falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, Republicans in some states launched special units to prosecute voter fraud as part of a high-profile and controversial push to stamp out cheating some claimed was rampant.

  • @Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35•7 months ago

    They’ve admitted time and time again that they want fewer people voting because that helps their chances.

    Additionally, they know the demographics that are least likely to vote for them so they target their opposition based on race and geography.

    Same as it ever was.

    "I don’t want everybody to vote,” the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”