# Massive voter fraud in the US - where's the investigation?

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**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-voter-fraud-in-the-us-wheres-the-investigation/778023 "2017-01-24T12:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-voter-fraud-in-the-us-wheres-the-investigation/778023/197 "2017-01-27T20:06:17Z")

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Apologies if someone already said this.

Now I get it.

Trump blathering on and on about “voter fraud” was/is a deliberate and calculated strategy to lay the foundation for this:

[In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-private-meeting-pence-vows-full-evaluation-of-voting-rolls-over-claims-of-voting-fraud/2017/01/27/1c1fa1de-e49a-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_pencevoterfraud-1155a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory)

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> In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States to examine whether millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election as President Trump has charged.
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> “What I can tell you is that I would anticipate that the administration is going to initiate a full evaluation of voting rolls in the country, the overall integrity of our voting system in the wake of this past election,” Pence told Republican lawmakers during a question-and-answer session at their annual policy retreat in Philadelphia this week.
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> The vice president’s comments, captured in a recording obtained by The Post, give the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration intends to investigate whether 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, an unsupported claim President Trump has made…

Having sowed the seeds of doubt in a (typically) disingenuous fashion, the Trumpster now feels he has the justification to send his minions through the voter registration machinery and get it tuned up in time for the mid-term elections.

In fact, there is NO justification for this kind of sweeping investigation-- and it’s yet another waste of money, just like the great wall.

And, BTW, the meeting that was “secretly” taped? :rolleyes: Yeah, sure. Those jerks were playing to the crowd that they knew were going to hear/read every word.

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