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BMaker11 on 27 January 2017
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numberwang said:

This study is pure comedy gold.

But coming in the first week of the presidency of Donald Trump, a man who has claimed that election systems are “rigged,” who lies about supposed “voter fraud” and who attacks the media outlets who call him out for those lies, the announcement is all the more unsettling.

Voter fraud by the Russians was proclaimed for months from everywhere and now it is the opposite again and there never was any fraud.

Nobody said there was "voter fraud by the Russians" or that Russia "hacked the voting machines" (that's "fake news" from those on the right, to try and deflect what the real problem is, by saying that the "problem" is something that is verifiably not true). The issue at hand is that Russia hacked emails, and then used that information to influence people in one direction (as they have information on the RNC, but haven't released it). That is the problem. 

Trump, on the other hand, is claiming of millions of illegal votes. From non-citizens, from dead people, from people registered in two or more states (ironically, several members of his administration are guilty of multiple registrations), etc.

You know there is a difference here, right? Not only on the issue, but on the evidence as well. We have evidence that Russia was behind the DNC hacks. There is no evidence of widespreads voter fraud. Especially not to the tune to 3-5 million votes. But, let's just say there were millions of illegal votes: that means that the election was illegitimate. Why does Trump keep undermining the actual integrity of the election? Other than to sooth his ego because he lost by 3 million votes.