# About that "end of democracy" talk

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 28, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796 "2021-12-28T17:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-end-of-democracy-talk/956796/119 "2022-01-03T13:57:49Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Hardly anybody argues that every suppressed legitimate vote is as serious a violation as every fraudulent vote, and there are so many more of them.

Like five or six orders of magnitude more of them. That is, tens or hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters have been suppressed to eliminate ones of fraudulent voters (who all seem to be Republicans these days anyway).

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