Republicans’ easy acceptance of a voting system they once slammed as broken exposes a fundamental contradiction in their complaints about the 2020 election.
Claims about fraud and stolen elections are often situational — used in some races but not others , and to challenge some outcomes but not others .
Noncitizens do not vote in any federal elections in significant numbers, in Alabama or elsewhere, according to a 2020 report from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Investigators from both parties have unearthed only minuscule numbers of any type of voter fraud.
The Republican effort to sow skepticism about elections in racially diverse Democratic cities is a generations-long project, with roots as far back as Richard Nixon’s 1960 defeat against John F. Kennedy. By the time Trump lost the 2020 election, he and millions of his supporters were primed to believe false allegations about “ballot harvesting” and machines miscounting in America’s populous cities. Brooks said that, in Alabama, fraud occurred “in predominantly Democrat parts of the state.
When asked if Cawthorn had any concerns about fraud in the election, a spokesperson for his congressional office declined to comment.
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