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Widespread election fraud claims by Republicans don't match the evidence
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They've only been claiming election fraud for decades, and spent millions (maybe billions, by now) in taxpayer dollars trying to find any kind of significant fraud that wasn't from Republicans. They've never once found the smoking gun they promised, which includes Trump's failed special commission while he was in office.
But they're never going to stop pushing that narrative, because they are literally trying to destroy democracy. They want a dictatorship where elections are meaningless and they retain power no matter what. It's been their goal for a long time, and they've stopped pretending otherwise.
About the only voter fraud that's been found has been Republicans voting multiple times. And even that wasn't at levels high enough to influence the results of the elections.
And definitely no evidence of election fraud. Stuff like their claims that companies that make voting machines remotely flipped votes to Biden. There's zero evidence for this and lots of evidence against it, but they still repeat these claims because they don't like the alternative: they lost the election.
They haven't legitimately won an election in decades. Every single candidate they ran for President lost the popular vote, and the ones that gained office anyway did so because they're gaming the system. They refuse to change their policies to gain votes fairly; they'd rather impose their policies regardless of the will of voters.
Democracy hasn't failed. They've simply abandoned democracy, and they're no longer trying to hide it.