“Analysis: Trump Not the First to Claim Voter Fraud Will Rig Elections”

Zack Roth:

Here’s what Sen. John McCain said during a 2008 presidential debate — the highest-profile stage of the campaign. The voter registration group ACORN, McCain declared, “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.”

Little surprise that a 2009 poll found that more than half of all Republicans believed ACORN stole the election.

OK, maybe that was just a one-time thing about ACORN, right? No. In 2004, RNC chair Ed Gillespie accused Democrats of trying to “shift focus from the voter fraud rampant among John Kerry’s supporters.” Marc Racicot, the chair of President George W. Bush’s campaign, warned that Democratic voter fraud would “ultimately paralyze the effective ability of Americans to be able to vote in the next election.”

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