# The Return of the Revenge of the Son of GOP Voter Buggery **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205 "2017-06-30T16:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/61 "2017-07-02T14:32:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I don’t believe for one second that Trump’s purpose in gathering this data is to investigate voter fraud. It’s to COLLECT THE DATA all in one place. To create a data bank that his troops can use in the 2020 election and/or sell to the highest bidder (including, but not limited to, the Russians). \*\*Names AND addresses AND voting history? \*\*This is a direct mailer’s dream come true! Yes, because Russians cannot just spend some $ and get that publicly available “Names AND addresses AND voting history” information themselves. 'Cuz they’re dumb or something. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/62 "2017-07-02T15:01:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I don’t believe for one second that Trump’s purpose in gathering this data is to investigate voter fraud. It’s to COLLECT THE DATA all in one place. To create a data bank that his troops can use in the 2020 election and/or sell to the highest bidder (including, but not limited to, the Russians). \*\*Names AND addresses AND voting history? \*\*This is a direct mailer’s dream come true! I don’t know if you read this thread or not, but any American can request and get this information from the states. You might be right about Trump not seriously investigating voter fraud, but the Russians don’t need Trump to get this info if they want it. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/63 "2017-07-02T16:57:10Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If it were a secret, I might agree. But it’s not. The information on how to get the information is publicly available. If you can’t be bothered to follow it, the states have no legal obligation. > … \<1960’s Southern Racist civil servant\> The information on how to (register to vote/enroll your child in the white school/get a marriage license for an interracial marriage) is publicly available. If them Nee-gros can’t be bothered to follow it the states have no legal obligation to help 'em. \ \<2010’s Religious County Clerk\> The information on how to get a marriage license is publicly available. If you can’t be bothered to follow it, the states have no legal obligation to help them homosexuals get marriage licenses. \ The personal political inclinations of public officials has no place in determining whether services available to the public should be granted or whether civil servants have an obligation to assist the requesting party or reply to a request in accordance with the law and existing regulations. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/64 "2017-07-02T18:06:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I don’t know if you read this thread or not, but any American can request and get this information from the states. You might be right about Trump not seriously investigating voter fraud, but the Russians don’t need Trump to get this info if they want it. Does Der Trumpster know? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/65 "2017-07-02T18:18:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Does Der Trumpster know? I don’t know if Pence has told him yet or not. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/66 "2017-07-02T18:36:04Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I don’t know if Pence has told him yet or not. I get the impression they’re not speaking these days. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/67 "2017-07-02T18:49:31Z")
Pence’s lawyer must have told him he needs plausible deniability. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/68 "2017-07-02T20:16:57Z")
Its an evil and intelligent move. What little evidence they find, they will not be funded to pursue. Hence, rumor and innuendo can flow from a semi-official source without any threat of being debunked. The precious flower of “voter fraud” is nurtured. The knuckle-walking right believes in voter fraud as an article of faith, they have believed in it for a generation at least. How could they lose the popular vote if they are the true and overwhelming majority? Its the only explanation, other than the Unthinkable. And when they win, its because they are truly the _overwhelming_ majority, so much so that not even lefty treachery can overcome it. Their faith is complicated, their thinking is not. Its clever. A weak and half-hearted effort that will return bountiful benefits of lies and insinuations, without any uncomfortable facts uncovered. ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205/69 "2017-07-02T21:22:49Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The knuckle-walking right believes in voter fraud as an article of faith, they have believed in it for a generation at least. yes, from when they were called Dittoheads. Same people, same faith, same prophet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-son-of-gop-voter-buggery/790205.md?page=3)