The Church of Voter Fraud

Twitter is brewing with wildly unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud as election officials in battleground ...

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Twitter is brewing with wildly unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud as election officials in battleground states continue to count ballots. For today’s myth busters edition of the podcast, David and Sarah discuss the nitty gritty details surrounding ballot-counting processes and whether the conspiratorial claims surrounding voter fraud allegations have any merit. “If voter fraud is a religion for you,” Sarah warns, “go find yourself another pod today.” They wrap things up with a conversation about exit polls and some Supreme Court punditry.

Show Notes:

-The Sweep: “Your 2020 Election Night Guide,” Employment Division v. Smith.

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    Angie

    Thanks guys, fun and informative as always

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    Joves

    Great podcast! Just wanted to point out that the Michigan Legislature has been in Republican hands for at least a decade. So I'm pretty sure the Legislature would've gotten a good belly laugh at Hillary's 2016 request had it come to pass.

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    Rajeev

    Amazing Podcast! Can we nominate Sarah for the People's Choice Award (Podcast Awards)? I know back when I used to listen to the early days of the Fantasy Focus podcast on ESPN that was their big goal was winning those podcast awards.

    As to the mass voter fraud, MAGA doesn't have it yet. Jeff Bezos turns on everyone's Alexas while they sleep and forces them subliminally to check the Biden box when they think they are checking the Trump box. Hypnosis there you have it :)

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  4. Allison H

    Less than 10 minutes in to this pod, and am LOVING the Sarah Rant!

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    1. Eric B

      The comedic timing of "hilarious"

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    Shereedf

    Just curious, does the ability to commit voter fraud look more feasible if it consists of removing ballots as opposed to trying to falsify additional ballots?

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      Justin Perry-Naw Dawg Doctrine

      This isn't targeted at you, it's an interesting question. I just want to add to this, how feasible is it that "removing" of ballots can be achieved given that there are Dem and Rep poll watchers?

      The other possibility for removing votesI could imagine is via the USPS. I'm very curious to see if there is ANY veracity to these claims, and whether there is any evidence that it's intentional or accidental. I suspect this will not be mass vote removal or loss (certainly not the 10s of thousands). And it seems this would disproportionately hurt Biden in this cycle, whereas past and hopefully future cycles such issues would hurt each party equally.

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  6. Jeffrey Koperski

    Sarah: As a professor of philosophy, I would like to suggest that your take on religion is a tad...underinformed.

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      Jonathan Nebel

      As a graduate student in philosophy who hopes to be a professor of philosophy, I came to say exactly this.

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    Kevin M. James

    Thank you for this...I found the first 24 minutes or so especially to be a bracing tonic.

    Remembering the 2004 Gregoire-Rossi debacle in Washington, I do instinctively fear absentee/mailed-in ballots surfacing after the election, when the candidate of a certain party turns needs a little extra help from a friendly big city.

    But so long as the gap between the candidates is at least a healthy four figures, I'm able to tell that instinct to sit down and shut up because we've surely gone beyond the margin of such shenanigans.

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    1. Daniel Turner

      Yes, as longtime WA voter, I vividly remember that election and it has made me paranoid about fraud ever since.

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    Shereedf

    I must say, I have fallen in love with cranky-pants Sarah. Keep up the great work you two.

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  9. Ruth

    This was really excellent -- Sarah, I love your passion. Thank you both for doing this pod for us. :)

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    Kevin C. Smith

    Ok so this is obviously not the right place to put this comment, but hey, I figure if anyone takes a gander at the comments--it's David and Sarah!

    For the What's Next event, you guys should implement some kind of panel of Dispatch members. Sure, it's kinda gimmicky.. But hey, what better way to ingratiate the fans... right?

    (P.S. - Pick me!)

    (P.P.S. - This wasn't intended to be entirely self-serving.... "entirely")

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      Aylene Wright

      Even if we don't get to staff a panel, I do hope TD is planning on collecting some Member questions to ask the participants in the event.

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