# A simple question for Trump supporters

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**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-question-for-trump-supporters/841213 "2019-10-03T17:21:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-question-for-trump-supporters/841213/527 "2019-10-19T12:16:54Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> … Sometimes there are real examples of voter fraud.
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> [Like illegally filling in absentee ballots](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS?il=0)
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> [Or voting twice for president](https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/29/trump-supporter-charged-in-voter-fraud-case)
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> Republicans are pretty sure that voter fraud exists. Because they do it.
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> ETA: Of course, voter ID would do nothing to fix the above… But they don’t give a shit about fixing Republican voter fraud.

You missed one of the funniest examples of GOPsters who obsess about voter fraud, then willfully commit voter fraud themselves:

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors/624943/11051):
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> [This story](https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-steve-curtis-voter-fraud-20170322-story.html) is old news but is too delicious not to repost.
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> Briefly, it involves former Colorado Republican Party chairman Steve Curtis who’s a staunch opponent of voter fraud and said “every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.” Recently felony charges were brought in Colorado against a voting fraudster(\*) — read the article to see if the fraudster was a Democrat, as Curtis predicted. (No, like most voter fraud it wouldn’t have been prevented with ID. Are you having trouble following the discussion?)
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> Yes, you guess it! — the felonious voting fraudster was … Steve Curtis himself.

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