26 Jan 2017

Why Trump Is Doubling Down on the Voter-Fraud Fraud

By Thomas L. Knapp

“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide,” U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump tweeted in late November, “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Kind of a sore winner. And now that he’s no longer just president-elect but actually president, he’s doubling down and says he “will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD ... .”

That’s dumb. And dangerous.

21 Dec 2016

Ted Rall: Leftist vs. Liberal

By Ted Rall

10 Dec 2016

Ted Rall: We’re Not the Strongest People

By Ted Rall

09 Nov 2016

Vote “Weighting” Option Calls Election Integrity Into Question

By Todd McGreevy

How meaningful is the media-fueled binary battle between the deplorables and the corruptibles when the very election systems used to count the votes are susceptible to manipulation and fraud? It’s a topic very few wish to engage with. For, if true, all the spent energy and resources and the lost or frayed friendships over such a contentious national election would be for naught.

31 Aug 2016

Behavior Modification is Covertly Influencing Your Vote

By Kathleen McCarthy

You might want to try an enlightening experiment as we get closer to election day. Put your normal preconceived notions about politics aside for a few days and open your mind to the possibility that nearly everything you’re being told via broadcast and radio news is entirely scripted, and specifically designed via behavior-modification techniques to “nudge” your choices in a predetermined direction.

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