Thursday, July 1, 2021

Politics: Legal Votes

You have probably heard a new Republican talking point by now called legal votes. They love to say this and it is purposefully misleading. They are trying to get the idea that illegal votes exist and cost them elections. That is why they phrase it that way and not simply wanting all the votes counted, they have to add legal to it.

 

Journalists need to call this out whenever they hear this phrase. They should point out that all votes are legal and that a Republican led commission to find voting fraud found no fraud. There is no such thing as illegal votes as Republicans would have you believe.

 

This talking point came from Trump after the 2016 election. He was so butt hurt over having lost the popular vote by MILLIONS that he was convinced that he did win the popular vote “if you don’t count those that voted illegally.” He won an election but still didn’t like the results of the votes in the end. Thus, the inklings of the phrase legal vote came to be.

 

All votes are legal and the type of widespread fraud that would somehow only prevent certain Republicans from winning just isn’t real and is illogical to anyone with half a brain. So even if alien bugs from outer space crawled up into your ear and took half of your brain away, it still would not make sense for the phrase legal votes to be popularized to the point of being used as much as it is. This phrase needs to die and people need to call it out for the shit that it is.

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