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Time for Some James McMurtry: "How'm I Gonna Find You Now"

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ObserverArt9/11/2017 7:39:39 am PDT

Hss anyone heard about Trump making a big deal out of voter fraud claims in New Hampshire?

I saw where some people were beginning to be outraged late last week. This morning I did a Google search and it seems like it is going to be a thing this week.

Of course this is all the doing of Kobach and his voter commision.

Isn’t this all just a recycling of an old rumor? Just more distraction and feed for the wingnuts.

A bit of the report from NBC news this morning:

NBC News - Trump Claims Vote Fraud in New Hampshire. His Commission Is Going There

Trump’s vote fraud panel is coming to New Hampshire on Tuesday for its second public meeting, only days after the commission’s vice-chair amplified the president’s baseless claims in an op-ed that illegal voting had possibly swayed the election in the state.

“It has long been reported, anecdotally, that out-of-staters take advantage of New Hampshire’s same-day registration and head to the Granite State to cast fraudulent votes,” Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, wrote on Breitbart last week.

He added that it is “possible that New Hampshire’s four Electoral College votes were swung to Hillary Clinton through illegal voting by nonresidents.”

Experts countered that there’s no evidence of significant fraud.

“New Hampshire is central to President Trump’s first claim of widespread voter fraud,” said Jonathan Brater, counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which examines voting rights issues.

“There’s really no evidence of widespread fraud in New Hampshire, but that has not stopped some people from inflating the potential for voter fraud,” he added.

The accusation that people have been bused in from nearby states has been around since at least the mid-1990s, said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley.

“This is a lie that they have convinced themselves because they have not been able to process that Democrats win in New Hampshire,” Buckley told NBC News. “You would think after 20 years of saying it, if it was true, that one of them would have taken a picture of one of the buses. It’s a farce.”