“Let’s take Rudy Giuliani’s voter-fraud theories to their natural conclusion”

Philip Bump:

In the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average in the state, Hillary Clinton leads Trump by 6.2 points, earning 46.4 percent to Trump’s 40.2. Assuming 6 million people vote, that means that we’d expect the final vote tally in the state to be 2.8 million votes for Clinton and 2.4 million votes for Trump, with a margin of 372,000 votes.

Meaning that we’d need to bus 372,000 people into Pennsylvania to vote, assuming the results are rigged.

This is obviously stupid already — how is Clinton only winning by “fraud” if she’s up 6 points in the polls? — but let’s keep going with it. Giuliani wouldn’t lie to us, after all, and if we are expecting that margin of victory for Clinton, that had better be the result to avoid raising suspicions.

Let’s assume the people perpetrating this fraud are using school buses, a line of them cruising from New York and New Jersey into the Philadelphia environs like the opening scene of “The Dark Knight.” This is slightly more inconspicuous than a stream of tourist buses; not that many people want to eat cheesesteak and see the Liberty Bell. The always-useful site SchoolBusInfo.com tells us that 72 people can fit on a regular school bus. That’s little kids, mind you. Only 48 high schoolers can fit on the same bus. But let’s assume we really pack these fraudsters in, have them standing in the aisles and so on. So: 72 each.

We need to line up 5,167 buses to make our plan work. At a length of 45 feet apiece, that’s 44 miles of school buses — just shy of half the distance from New York to Philly (assuming they’re moving bumper-to-bumper). And, of course, we need to line up 372,000 people to go do the illegal voting.

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