Amy Goodman
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Will Trump's Claims of Election Fraud Pave the Way for an Assault on Voting Rights?
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January 27, 2017
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10:38Now PlayingPresident Trump is calling for a "major investigation" of voter fraud, as he continues to stand by his lies about the 2016 election despite the fact that his claims have been widely debunked by experts. Trump falsely asserted that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because 3 to 5 million unauthorized votes were cast in the election. Trump claims a 2008 study published by the Pew Research Foundation supports his "belief" of widespread voter fraud. However, according to Politico, there is no 2008 Pew study saying any such thing. There is another studypublished in 2014 and since widely debunkedthat mistakenly claimed 14 percent of noncitizens said they were registered to vote in 2008 and 2010. Brian Schaffner, one of the academics behind the survey that led to this study, told CNN Trump is misinterpreting the study, calling Trump’s claims "absurd" and "not even plausible." For more, we’re joined by Brian Schaffner, who recently cowrote a piece in The Washington Post titled "Trump wants to investigate purported mass voter fraud. We predebunked his evidence." We’re also joined by Dale Ho, director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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