5/22/20: If you missed it, because you can’t stomach Fox News propaganda (see: 5/21/20), you missed an appearance by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, backed up by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Paxton wanted everyone glued to Fox News to know he wasn’t
going to stand for mail-in voting, just because people might be afraid of showing
up in person and catching the coronavirus. And the Lt. Governor was really,
really upset about Democrats trying to get people to vote by mail. It’s a
“scam,” he said. They want to “steal votes.”
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the tip of the…ice cube?
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On Fox, of course, Paxton and Patrick were allowed to say whatever they liked without being questioned. Paxton could have said, “Democrats plan to bring in illegal immigrants from Ireland and let leprechauns vote by the hundreds of thousands.” His host, Ed Henry, wouldn’t have so much as furrowed his brow. But one might be forgiven for thinking these Texas fools were crying “wolf” yet again. One could rummage around in old news stories and recall the claxon of alarm sounded by these same knuckleheads in January 2019. On Fox News (of course), it was then that AG Paxton said he had evidence that 95,000 non-citizens were enrolled to vote in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott flipped and promised to prosecute under the law. Patrick flipped next.
President Trump, himself, watched Fox News. He saw those eye-popping numbers and he flipped, too.
And, lo, he did tweet: “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends”
And it came to pass. The search was on for non-citizen
voters…and, verily, did they turn out to be just about as common in Texas as
leprechauns.
Lists of non-citizen voters were rushed out to all 254 Texas counties with orders they be checked. Within days, counties found error rates of 60 percent in their lists and weren’t even done. Cameron County got a list of 1,500 names. State officials called and said never mind. Only check 30 names. Then state officials called again and said, we’re not really sure what we’re doing. The list we gave you might be 85 percent correct. Sparsely populated McClennan County had a shorter list: 366 names, the “tip of the iceberg” so to speak. Like Santa Claus, county officials checked the list to see who had been naughty and nice. It turned out all 366 individuals listed were…U.S. citizens…giving state officials an impressive 100% error rate for their county.
The entire affair turned out to be such a huge embarrassment that Abbott and Paxton and Patrick dropped the matter entirely.
Now they claim voting by mail is going to a horror and an abomination. Trump hates it like he hates paying taxes.
Florida? Where Trump will vote? Yeah, they have mail-in
balloting for everyone who wants it.
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IN TERMS of the coronavirus, it’s hard to tell where we stand
on this Memorial Day weekend. We do know today that Divot Donald managed to get
out for a round of golf.
That might help the president’s cranky mood, since playing golf is what he
really likes best.
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