The nonpartisan Brennan Center has calculated that voter fraud occurs NO MORE than .0025 PER CENT of the time. That’s no more than 1 in 40,000, in case you can’t do the numbers.
In case THAT isn’t enough (and I feel sure it is not), here’s their report on ten myths about voter fraud. You will note that perhaps seven are being pushed by #45 (gee, wonder why?).
I live in one of 5 states that are mail-in ballots only. We’ve been doing it that way for decades. I have yet to see an election delayed by lost and misplaced ballots, fraud or endless legal challenges (although, if the Republicans loose, I suspect they will gen up reasons for legal challenges).
What 45, Gorrell and others don’t want looked at are the ballot collections and counting, which they would happily fraudulently lose, not count, or invalidate in some way.
Gorrell once again displays the awesome analysis skills of the Trump Disciple.
Not only does Gorrell have NO concept of the difference between delaying the election and not knowing the results immediately, but he also wants to make HIS contribution to the 157,000, and counting, virus deaths.
The Biggest case of Voter Fraud is by Republicans. Also Republicans are older and sicker so they are more likely to vote by mails. Oh!! By the way lets invalidate Military absentee ballots … because you know they get mailed.
The Republicans are going to try to STEAL the ELECTIONS By closing polling places in Blue districts….
The fact that mail in balloting has worked in several states for years without issue seems to have been lost in this debate. Personally I’m in favor of it as an option but I’m going to vote at my local polling place. The acting of voting against Trump will be cathartic and I’m willing to risk illness or death for that one moment of joy. They’re hard to come by this tear.
pretty much the exact same 4 panel donkey cartoon as:
https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2018/08/29
just with the 1st panel copy/pasted to the 4th and the donkey moved to the left side of the panel.
Do you have any evidence proving that vote by mail leads to more fraud than in person voting, or are you just following orders?
we could be spending the next 2 months setting up vote by mail infrastructure or we can let Gorrell and the GOP can keep stalling and whining about how unfair it is for them when EVERYONE IS ABLE TO VOTE.
1: It is a flat lie that the US Post Office is broken. Though the right wingers are working hard to break it.
2: It is a flat lie that “mail in voting” actually makes heavy use of the US Post Office: At least in Oregon, the ballots are mailed out to the registered voters, and that fact is newsworthy, so they know when they should have them. If not, they can call for a resend or go in to pick it up. Ballots may then be returned by dropping them into one of the many ballot-return boxes or by stamping them and mailing them back. That’s not a requirement because the state chose not to buy enough postage to make it free to return them; and requiring you to pay (for a stamp) to vote is illegal.
The oft-repeated lies that Gorrell avoided also include… the lie that non-polling-place ballots are unchecked (signatures are checked) and the lie that polling-place voting is less subject to cheating than the mail-in kind. In fact, the opposite is true.
Total BS. Five states have been voting by mail for years and none of them have had problems. Unlike States using easily hacked obsolete electronic systems.
Republicans need to set an example by refusing to vote by mail under any circumstances and support Trump’s request to move the voting date by refusing to vote on Nov 3. That’ll teach those Libtards…
Everyone already knows that anything short of a 100% vote count for Trump will be challenged in the court by Trump. He won the last election and still claims millions of false votes which has never been proven.
Trump is the biggest promoter of deep state conspiracy and Q-anon BS.
“Endless legal challenges” – Trump has already given away his game plan – to contest the election with legal challenges so we “don’t know the winner for weeks, or months, or even years after”.
However, he doesn’t get to stay president while he runs out the clock with legal challenges. He is no longer president and has to leave the White House Jan 20th 2021. Period. Says so in the 20th amendment.
According to a Zoom meeting with the Lincoln Project, the majority of Republicans vote by mail. They encourage vote by mail because most people do not want to come to the polls, stand in long lines, risk illness, bad weather, whatever. The is Nothing Illegal with vote by mail even though the moron in the White House is spewing the lies and misinformation. You want to stop vote by mail, fine, then I bet you will be asking for an absentee ballot instead. They are the SAME THING!
Funny. We don’t have any of that stuff here in Oregon. Nor do Washington State, Colorado, Hawaii, and Nevada. New York had a problem only because mail-ins unexpectedly exceeded anything in history by 1000% and they weren’t tooled up for it.
And a for the security of in-person voting, we can always look to the iowa Repblican caucuses as a beacon of hope.
What’s absurd is the US always making a huge fuss about stuff that is completely normal everywhere else in the world, like mail-in voting or having to show an ID to vote. There’s no reason why Americans should trust mailed ballots less than their rigged voting machines.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Gorrell is helping set up the Rump to contest the election.
Motivemagus almost 4 years ago
VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH
VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH
VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH.
Get it yet, Gorrell? Okay, how about this:
The nonpartisan Brennan Center has calculated that voter fraud occurs NO MORE than .0025 PER CENT of the time. That’s no more than 1 in 40,000, in case you can’t do the numbers.
https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud
In case THAT isn’t enough (and I feel sure it is not), here’s their report on ten myths about voter fraud. You will note that perhaps seven are being pushed by #45 (gee, wonder why?).
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/10-voter-fraud-lies-debunked
Ontman almost 4 years ago
Fraud is something tRump and Gorrell are very familiar with.
DrDon1 almost 4 years ago
Gorrell may think GoComics’ readers are as stupid ( or dishonest ) as he is! Literally millions of mail-in ballots were cast in 2016 and 2018!
Retired engineer almost 4 years ago
I live in one of 5 states that are mail-in ballots only. We’ve been doing it that way for decades. I have yet to see an election delayed by lost and misplaced ballots, fraud or endless legal challenges (although, if the Republicans loose, I suspect they will gen up reasons for legal challenges).
Frankfreak almost 4 years ago
What 45, Gorrell and others don’t want looked at are the ballot collections and counting, which they would happily fraudulently lose, not count, or invalidate in some way.
Vidrinath Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Bob, you’re part of DEATHCULT™ a subsidiary of GOP. You just don’t like it when there is an option for Americans to not die.
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Gorrell once again displays the awesome analysis skills of the Trump Disciple.
Not only does Gorrell have NO concept of the difference between delaying the election and not knowing the results immediately, but he also wants to make HIS contribution to the 157,000, and counting, virus deaths.
.
#TriatorTrump
jhayesd31 almost 4 years ago
The Biggest case of Voter Fraud is by Republicans. Also Republicans are older and sicker so they are more likely to vote by mails. Oh!! By the way lets invalidate Military absentee ballots … because you know they get mailed.
The Republicans are going to try to STEAL the ELECTIONS By closing polling places in Blue districts….
Just like they Tried to do in Wisconsin.
That is why they are challenging vote by mail.
Milwaukee Closed 104 out of 109 polling places.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html
PaulGoes almost 4 years ago
The election won’t be delayed but the results may. The legal challenges will be from the GO)P because they won’t believe how badly they lose.
casonia2 almost 4 years ago
So VOTE! Vote Blue, however you do it, especially because if Trump is re-elected you won’t ever get to vote again.
mikemck almost 4 years ago
The fact that mail in balloting has worked in several states for years without issue seems to have been lost in this debate. Personally I’m in favor of it as an option but I’m going to vote at my local polling place. The acting of voting against Trump will be cathartic and I’m willing to risk illness or death for that one moment of joy. They’re hard to come by this tear.
pamela welch Premium Member almost 4 years ago
What a pack of lies! Colorado’s been doing mail-in for years and it’s just fine!
Patjade almost 4 years ago
So many bad tropes here. Gorrell is desperate.
https://youtu.be/l-nEHkgm_Gk?t=610
GradingGorrell almost 4 years ago
pretty much the exact same 4 panel donkey cartoon as:
https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2018/08/29
just with the 1st panel copy/pasted to the 4th and the donkey moved to the left side of the panel.
Do you have any evidence proving that vote by mail leads to more fraud than in person voting, or are you just following orders?
we could be spending the next 2 months setting up vote by mail infrastructure or we can let Gorrell and the GOP can keep stalling and whining about how unfair it is for them when EVERYONE IS ABLE TO VOTE.
Jack Dawson almost 4 years ago
Trolls just hate it when they see the truth. Mail in voting would be a farce, just not a funny one.
DrDon1 almost 4 years ago
^ You are correct! ‘Trolls’ do hate the Truth! They hate Fact! They hate Science! They hate Social Progress!
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
Two flat lies here.
1: It is a flat lie that the US Post Office is broken. Though the right wingers are working hard to break it.
2: It is a flat lie that “mail in voting” actually makes heavy use of the US Post Office: At least in Oregon, the ballots are mailed out to the registered voters, and that fact is newsworthy, so they know when they should have them. If not, they can call for a resend or go in to pick it up. Ballots may then be returned by dropping them into one of the many ballot-return boxes or by stamping them and mailing them back. That’s not a requirement because the state chose not to buy enough postage to make it free to return them; and requiring you to pay (for a stamp) to vote is illegal.
The oft-repeated lies that Gorrell avoided also include… the lie that non-polling-place ballots are unchecked (signatures are checked) and the lie that polling-place voting is less subject to cheating than the mail-in kind. In fact, the opposite is true.
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Trump, “Its safe enough to go back to school.”
Trump, “Its too unsafe to vote.”
Republicans are nothing but liars and cheats, they want to ‘fix’ the post office and slow it down because of all the mail in ballots.
Republicans know they will lose bigly in a fair election.
Vote every one of the fascist thieves out.
david_42 over 3 years ago
Total BS. Five states have been voting by mail for years and none of them have had problems. Unlike States using easily hacked obsolete electronic systems.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member over 3 years ago
Gorrell has hanging chads on his brain…
Patjade over 3 years ago
Republicans need to set an example by refusing to vote by mail under any circumstances and support Trump’s request to move the voting date by refusing to vote on Nov 3. That’ll teach those Libtards…
The Love of Money is . . . over 3 years ago
“States Rights” used to keeping Slavery but not for mail-in-voting. I find that strange.
Joel Stein Premium Member over 3 years ago
Funny. We’ve been voting by mail for years in california. Never heard a word of complaint til the orange menace showed up.
Scoutmaster77 over 3 years ago
Flies don’t read the comics, which is why nobody like this BS.
baroden Premium Member over 3 years ago
Everyone already knows that anything short of a 100% vote count for Trump will be challenged in the court by Trump. He won the last election and still claims millions of false votes which has never been proven.
Trump is the biggest promoter of deep state conspiracy and Q-anon BS.
john_chubb over 3 years ago
“Endless legal challenges” – Trump has already given away his game plan – to contest the election with legal challenges so we “don’t know the winner for weeks, or months, or even years after”.
However, he doesn’t get to stay president while he runs out the clock with legal challenges. He is no longer president and has to leave the White House Jan 20th 2021. Period. Says so in the 20th amendment.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xx
If there isn’t a clear winner by then, the Congress picks an interim president – which by the order of succession would be the Speaker of the House.
#PresidentPelosi
MaryBethJavorek1 over 3 years ago
According to a Zoom meeting with the Lincoln Project, the majority of Republicans vote by mail. They encourage vote by mail because most people do not want to come to the polls, stand in long lines, risk illness, bad weather, whatever. The is Nothing Illegal with vote by mail even though the moron in the White House is spewing the lies and misinformation. You want to stop vote by mail, fine, then I bet you will be asking for an absentee ballot instead. They are the SAME THING!
AndrewSihler over 3 years ago
Funny. We don’t have any of that stuff here in Oregon. Nor do Washington State, Colorado, Hawaii, and Nevada. New York had a problem only because mail-ins unexpectedly exceeded anything in history by 1000% and they weren’t tooled up for it.
And a for the security of in-person voting, we can always look to the iowa Repblican caucuses as a beacon of hope.
Luvas Rosa over 3 years ago
What’s absurd is the US always making a huge fuss about stuff that is completely normal everywhere else in the world, like mail-in voting or having to show an ID to vote. There’s no reason why Americans should trust mailed ballots less than their rigged voting machines.