Why Trump's Voter Fraud Hunt Is His Own Personal Pipe Dream
Jul 7, 2017 10:57:08 GMT
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Post by ck4829 on Jul 7, 2017 10:57:08 GMT
It is the gift of the dishonest to see liars everywhere, except when they glance in the mirror. Trump, the quintessential fraud, sees fraud everywhere else. He has just commanded his highly legitimate Election Integrity Commission to investigate voter data from the last election. According to an article in the Post:
The reaction of the states to this dream-like proposal was not as ecstatic as one would have hoped.
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Trump has imagined himself to be many things that weren’t the case: a successful businessman, in good health, a popularly-elected President of all the people. None of which existed. The hunt for voter fraud is one of these illusions. In this case, I don’t believe Trump is lying. The President is deluding himself, to use the polite term. He is hunting for something, anything, to support his emotional need. Trump craves the popular mandate. Because he is powerful, his needs are catered to. Because he is not a reflective man, but an old playboy who lives for self-aggrandizement and big burned steaks, he will seek whatever data conforms to the picture in his mind. This is the problem of confirmation bias. Trump gives his faith to information which affirms what he believes, and turns his back on data which refutes it.
www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/07/why-trumps-voter-fraud-hunt-is-a-pipe-dream.html
The chair of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in the state.
The reaction of the states to this dream-like proposal was not as ecstatic as one would have hoped.
States began reacting to the letter on Thursday afternoon. “I have no intention of honoring this request,” said Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia in a statement. “Virginia conducts fair, honest, and democratic elections, and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia.” Connecticut’s Secretary of State, Denise Merrill, said she would “share publicly-available information with the Kobach Commission while ensuring that the privacy of voters is honored by withholding protected data.” She added, however, that Kobach “has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas” and that “given Secretary Kobach’s history we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this Commission.”
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Trump has imagined himself to be many things that weren’t the case: a successful businessman, in good health, a popularly-elected President of all the people. None of which existed. The hunt for voter fraud is one of these illusions. In this case, I don’t believe Trump is lying. The President is deluding himself, to use the polite term. He is hunting for something, anything, to support his emotional need. Trump craves the popular mandate. Because he is powerful, his needs are catered to. Because he is not a reflective man, but an old playboy who lives for self-aggrandizement and big burned steaks, he will seek whatever data conforms to the picture in his mind. This is the problem of confirmation bias. Trump gives his faith to information which affirms what he believes, and turns his back on data which refutes it.
www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/07/why-trumps-voter-fraud-hunt-is-a-pipe-dream.html