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My take on why the "election fraud" conspiracy theory (as well as most conspiracy theories) is based on racism.
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1) In 1964 the Republican National Committee organized a nationwide expansion of a poll-watching campaign. With knowledge of JFK and LBJ hoping to pass the civil rights act, the GOP feared the African American vote would be at a high, as well as whites who supported equality.
2) This fear was especially rampant in Texas, LBJ's home state, knowing there was strong support by both blacks and mexican Americans. In 1964, the GOP focused on large cities with high concentrations of minorities.
3) the director of the operation, Charles Barr, expected to “successfully challenge or to discourage from voting 1,250,000 persons” using tactics such as asking Mexican Americans to read the constitution in English, or be refused the right to vote.
4) That year, flyers authored by the nonexistent “Harris County Negro Protective Association” warned Black voters they could be arrested for voting if they had been even so much as questioned by the police for any offense, including traffic violations.
5) The chairman of the Harris County GOP charged that the party had found more than a thousand “fictitious” voter registrations. Travis County, GOP said they found 100 phantom voters, circulating pictures of a cemetery and a vacant lot where they were apparently registered.
6) In 2008, when Obama won the white house, Houston GOP had witnesses come forward that stated they saw actual fraud in their city. Harris county GOP then formed the "Tea party" aimed at delegitimizing the administration of our first black president.
7) back to 2008, With more volunteers and more backing, the King Street Patriots scoured voter rolls in predominantly Black parts of Houston and came up with a list of what they called fraudulent registration forms.
8) That caught the attention of Harris County tax assessor–collector and voter registrar Leo Vasquez, a Republican. Vasquez held a shocking press conference in a room filled with cheering members of a new group, True the Vote.
9) This year, their aim was to mobilize 10,000 poll watchers—with a special emphasis on recruiting military veterans. Her poll watchers have often been accused of harassment.
10) Behind closed doors at a recent gathering of the religious right in Orange County, California, the group wanted intimidating-looking volunteers, navy seals, etc, to intimidate minority voters.
11) In 2013 Texas tea party leader Ken Emanuelson was asked at a GOP event how the Republican party was reaching out to Black voters. “I’m going to be real honest with you the Republican party doesn’t want Black people to vote if they are going to vote nine to one for Democrats.”
12) Now the GOP is attacking mail in voting, but this is not a new tactic. They have tried to stop this before, by trying to stop minority voters who are more vulnerable to illness, like sickle cell anemia. Covid as we know has destroyed minority communities.
13) We can see that based on history, the GOP today is hoping to discount the African American vote by claiming the election was rigged. It's racist. Plain and simple.
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