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Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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    Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

    Let's talk about today's fears of "voter fraud," why the modern GOP pushes them, and how they have warped our politics since 1986, shall we? In 1986, Reagan's sixth year, the GOP had to defend vulnerable Senators elected w/him in 1980. (The House was already Democratic).1/

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      2. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        But the Reagan Revolution already was unpopular. So, demanding "ballot integrity," GOP sent mail to voters in Democratic counties IN, LA, and MO. Undeliverable mail meant purging of those voters. A GOP leader from LA explained: 2/pic.twitter.com/AmqLWzDBnm

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      3. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        The idea at the heart of this purge was that anyone who did not believe in the destruction of the New Deal state was not a legitimate voter. Anyone who believed in business regulation and social welfare was unAmerican, and just wanted free stuff. GOP hit black voters first. /3pic.twitter.com/IjJiLygYwQ

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      4. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        But also all "Liberals." By 1990, GA Rep. Newt Gingrich was attacking even GOP President H.W. Bush as a "RINO-" Republican in Name Only- and Chamber of Commerce lawyer Grover Norquist got leaders to pledge that they would never, ever raise taxes. But it didn't work. /4

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      5. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        In 1992, voters elected Democrat Bill Clinton, whose policies were hugely popular. So in 1993, when Ds expanded voter registration w the Motor-Voter Act, GOP said that letting folks vote would pack elections in Ds favor. GOP wanted FEWER voters; not MORE. /5pic.twitter.com/bgpRSBYOtP

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      6. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        GOP leaders loathed Clinton, and argued that any voters who liked him must be fraudulent voters who didn't want what was best for America (if they did they would vote GOP). They were takers, not makers. They must be purged from the electoral process. /6

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      7. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        In 1993, GOP operative Ed Rollins claimed he successfully suppressed the black vote in NJ to get a GOP governor, and in 1994, losing GOP candidates charged that they lost elections because of "voter fraud," that is, people who should not be voting- often immigrants were. /7

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      8. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        In 1996, the GOP Congress launched a year-long election into elections in LA and CA won by Ds. The investigations proved that the Ds actually won fair and square, but they kept the issue in front of the country for a solid year. Guess who those winning Ds were? Two women. /8

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      9. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        Sen. Mary Landrieu in LA (she went on to hold the seat until 2014), and Rep. Loretta Sanchez in CA (she stayed in office until 2017, when she lost a Senate bid to Kamala Harris). How did the investigation play out? /9pic.twitter.com/Cjtc4sy9jQ

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      10. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        Led by Gingrich, GOP claimed it couldn't prove Sanchez had lost because it couldn't figure out voters' citizenship. As soon as the investigation ended, they introduced bill to prove voters were citizens. Not a real bill, an attempt to keep the issue in front of GOP voters. /10pic.twitter.com/qMwifgdfcQ

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      11. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        In Miami, the 1997 mayor's race was a mess. Independent Cuban-born Xavier L. Suarez beat Republican Cuban-American Joe Carollo (Loco Joe) in a chaotic election that was a national embarrassment + sent supporters of both men to jail. (Suarez was eventually declared winner.) /11

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      12. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        In 1998, GOP-held FL legislature "reformed" "voter fraud" by outsourcing "list maintenance" to a private company. A later study by the US Commission on Civil Rights concluded "extraordinarily high and inexcusable level of disenfranchisement" of black voters in FL in 2000. /12

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      13. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        Indeed, the commission concluded that the story of the 2000 election, which came down to 327 votes in Florida, was really the story of more than 100,000 voters- mostly Ds, and mostly African Americans, purged illegally from the rolls. /13pic.twitter.com/MNrOHWMT8F

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      14. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        It appeared that Ed Rollins was right. Voter suppression worked. D Al Gore won the popular vote but, thanks to Florida's vote count, GOP George W. Bush was in the White House. /14

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      15. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        Actual voter fraud is virtually nonexistent. But voter suppression is increasingly widespread. Exact match ID hits women and POC hard; limiting voting places can shut out a whole population. In 2018, Supreme Court gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act. /15https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth …

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      16. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        GOP likes suppression because it shrinks the electorate. Modern GOP has pushed "voter fraud" because they think anyone who believes the government should regulate business and promote social welfare (and infrastructure) is unAmerican. That means most voters. Cut them + win. /16

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      17. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        Even though we are a majority (especially as GOP policies have made more of us poor), we have no right to a say in our leadership because we oppose their extremist ideology. Playing on this history, Trump recently called his opponents a crazy mob, and w no evidence, said: /16pic.twitter.com/Ew5HVdlEbA

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      18. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        When you buy into the "voter fraud" myth, you are buying into a narrative established a generation ago to keep the GOP in power without a majority. That premise says that no one can oppose government by and for a few rich men, because only they know what is best for us. /17

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      19. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 21 Oct 2018

        This is not democracy; this is oligarchy. Opponents of this reactionary coup are not radicals; we are conservatives. As Lincoln said, it is imperative that we "highly resolve... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." /ENDpic.twitter.com/Nf88gHL6Uf

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