Donald Trump Jr. tweets misleading 2012 headline about Florida noncitizen voters

[tulc]

Donald Trump Jr.'s misleading tweet on noncitizen voters

As Florida underwent a recount of three key races, Trump Jr. tweeted a headline that said "nearly 200,000 Florida voters may not be citizens." He said it was "amazing, but not shocking at all anymore."

It’s actually not true, and years old.

The story itself provides a more complete picture — and an editor’s note with clarifications that Trump overlooked. The state’s 2012 voter purge started with a list of potentially 182,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. State officials whittled that list to more than 2,600 names sent to county election supervisors. Ultimately 85 noncitizens were removed.

We rate this claim False.

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[Hieronymus]

Truth about voter fraud will come out.
They got caught in the act in the midterms.
Swamp media will of course deny everything...

 

[tulc]

Truth about voter fraud will come out.
They got caught in the act in the midterms.
Swamp media will of course deny everything...

...but it wont be, and this will simply be a repeat of all the other times Republicans have made the claim of "voter fraud" and have been shown to not be true.
tulc(wash, rinse repeat as needed)

 

[archer75]

You can't even get citizens to vote.

How you can mobilize hundreds of thousands of "non-citizens" to do it is beyond me.

Oh, right: you can't.

If the claim is that "Democrats" or "the left" want to do so to "win" elections they couldn't otherwise...why wouldn't they just work harder to get actual citizens to vote? If they did that, they'd win the presidency and House literally every time.

 

[The Barbarian]

This is why Trump's voter fraud commission imploded. There were four cases of fraud found for the 2016 election.

All four illegal votes were for republicans.

 

[Jamsie]

Donald Trump Jr.'s misleading tweet on noncitizen voters
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Depends on how one chooses to define "Voter Fraud", if as concerns individual voters then it has shown many times to be a myth. However, if one includes registration, gerrymandering, and suppression under the fraud umbrella then perhaps an argument can be made ... unfortunately Republicans have proven quite capable of such too.

 

[The Barbarian]

The story itself provides a more complete picture — and an editor’s note with clarifications that Trump overlooked. The state’s 2012 voter purge started with a list of potentially 182,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. State officials whittled that list to more than 2,600 names sent to county election supervisors. Ultimately 85 noncitizens were removed.

The part everyone misses, is that these are not illegal votes; they are people who happen to be registered, but not legally able to vote. A lot of these are just recently deceased, and no one thought to tell the registrar.

 

[archer75]

To me, all these claims of widespread "voter fraud" are a desperate attempt to turn anyone who disagrees with you into a vanishingly small (but strangely powerful) minority.

No one would vote for Democrats, because they're evil.

Votes for them are all fake / illegal.

There are very few "real" people who are against Us in any way; but they are so well-funded and organized that they can magically registers hundreds of thousands of fake voters in swing states and then magically cast votes for them all on election day.

 

[Hank77]

It's so sad that the Trump family has so little respect for their supporters.

 

[The Barbarian]

Republicans bring in an expert to assist with Florida vote count: