By Stephen
D Foster Jr
·
Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats of rigging the
election against him, but it turns out his own supporters are doing everything
they can to rig it in his favor.
And that includes voting twice, something Republicans
continually claim that Democratic voters always get away with doing.
Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony.
Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report.
Ms. Rote's mug shot |
That’s the precise definition of election rigging, but you won’t
hear Trump say anything about this because he thinks that Democrats are the
ones committing voter fraud, which is why he has called for his supporters to
intimidate minority voters at polling places.
But
this incident is far from the only time during this election that a Republican
has been caught trying to rig the election.
A
Wisconsin city clerk was recently busted for trying to deny an extra polling
place near the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay because she argued in an email
that students lean Democratic.
“I
was reading the statutes and read: No site may be designated that affords an
advantage to any political party,” Kris Teske wrote.
“UWGB is a polling location for students and residents on Election Day but I feel by asking for this to be the site for early voting is encouraging the students to vote more than benefiting the city as a whole. I have heard it said that students lean more toward the democrats and he is a democrat. I have spoken with our Chief of Staff and others at City Hall and they agree that budget wise this isn’t going to happen. I would like to know your thoughts on this. Do I have an argument about it being more of a benefit to the democrats?”
Imagine
if a Democratic clerk denied letting a church be a polling place on the premise
that most religious people are Republicans. The outrage and whining would last
for days.
And
a right-wing group is literally creating fake badges so they can infiltrate polling places
in order to intimidate voters on Election Day.
Keep in mind that Republicans often accuse Democratic voters of
using fake IDs to vote multiple times, but here’s a right-wing group making
fake IDs so they can use voter suppression tactics to swing the vote in favor
of Trump.
Thus
far, it appears that only Donald Trump’s supporters are trying to rig the
election, not Democrats as he so often claims. And just think, there are still
ten days left until Election Day.
Still plenty of time for even more hypocritical Trump supporters
to be caught trying to rig the election for the small-handed man who whines
about how unfair our democratic system is.