Another fairy tale about election fraud from Donald Trump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On September 13, 2021 Donald J. Trump whined:

 

“Does anybody really believe the California Recall Election isn’t rigged? Millions and millions of Mail-In Ballots will make this just another giant Election Scam, no different, but less blatant, than the 2020 Presidential Election Scam!”

 

That same day at Politifact Amy Sherman had an article that discussed how Trump and his allies lack evidence for claim about ‘rigged’ California recall.

 

The next day Trump got more specific and said it was totally rigged:

 

“….In any event, it all doesn’t matter because the California Election is totally Rigged. Many people are already complaining that when they go to vote they are told, ‘I’m sorry, you already voted’ (Just like 2020, among many other things). They then leave angry, but fortunately, even the Fake News Media has been reporting it.” 

 

But that day at Politifact another article by Tom Kertscher discussed how in Woodland Hills a Snafu at voting site did not target GOP voters in Calif. recall election. Those voters got to submit provisional ballots anyhow. On September 15, 2021 there was an AP article by Adam Beam titled Few voting issues reported with California recall election. And at Newsweek there was an article by Anders Anglesey titled Larry Elder concedes California recall election as vote fraud plan goes up in smoke.

 

At FiveThirtyEight on September 14, 2021 an article titled Latest polls of the California recall election had reported 57.3% wanted to keep the governor, versus 41.5% who wanted to remove him (a 15.8% lead, versus the situation in early August with a tie at ~47%).

 

What was the result of this recall election? 63.7% voted to keep the governor, versus 36.3% who voted to remove him. Does that look rigged? No, it agrees well with the voter registration results from the end of August. There were 46.5% registered Democrats, 24.0% registered Republicans, 23.2% with no party preference, and 6.3% other. If we simply split the 23.2% and 6.3% and add them to the partisan totals, then we get 61.3% for keeping the governor and 38.7% for removing him – within 3% of the actual voting.  

 

An image of a wolf and Red Riding Hood came from Wikimedia Commons.