{"id":137383,"date":"2021-02-25T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137383"},"modified":"2021-02-25T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:21","slug":"vote-suppression-vs-vote-expansion-2-25-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137383","title":{"rendered":"Vote Suppression vs Vote Expansion (2-25-21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetoric about &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; is not about voter fraud. It is Republican rhetoric aimed at vote suppression, but because this is politically unpalatable to say, Republicans have to lie and talk about &#8220;voter fraud.&#8221; Voter fraud is a crime and there have been few convictions and little evidence for this having massive influence. Vote expansion vs vote suppression does have massive influence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyTT8sB-ZfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetoric about &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; is not about voter fraud. 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