CNN had a brazen headline on an article written by Chris Cillizza recently that declared, “Donald Trump warns people to beware of non-existent voter fraud”, leaving little or no doubt about the position the alleged news network would be taking on the subject of voter fraud in the coming election. And what might be the problem with this headline, you ask?
Well, claiming that voter fraud doesn’t exist ought to mean that no matter how hard I try, I shouldn’t be able to search the internet and find an article listing ten examples of voter fraud, should I? Perhaps the question I should be asking is this: why doesn’t Chris Cillizza appear to know how to use a search engine? Why can a woefully underpaid professional writer like me find pertinent information that completely escaped the attention of an overpaid media personality like Cillizza so easily?
When I read the news from legitimate news sources not named CNN, I can find articles claiming that Habersham County here in Georgia had a whopping 243 percent voter turnout. In Detroit, 37 percent of the reporting precincts had more votes than registered voters in a recent election, so the problem isn’t isolated. I shouldn’t be able to type “voter fraud convictions” and find stories about a voter fraud scandal for profit orchestrated by Democrats in Texas, should I? Yet I can find numerous examples of voter fraud by searching online rather easily. Maybe Chris Cillizza only uses Google, which appears to censor content by manipulating search results.
For example, when I typed “voter fraud” in Google’s search engine, the entire first page of search results consisted entirely of headlines claiming that voter fraud doesn’t exist, basically echoing what Cillizza claimed. Every one of the links referenced above except the link to the CNN article were buried in the search results produced by Google. Fortunately, I know better than to trust blindly Google or any other alleged source of information, and used the search engine duckduckgo.com, because I don’t want liberal bias tainting the results of my search. Think about it this way: if every link provided on the first page of results for the most popular search engine only says that voter fraud is a myth and offers no conflicting arguments, how many users do you think will look four, six, or ten pages deep to learn that people have actually been charged with almost thirty (felony) counts of voter fraud, which begs the question: does voter fraud exist, if nobody finds out about it?
Personally, if I were Chris Cillizza, I’d be embarrassed that a freelance writer who doesn’t even bother pretending to be a journalist could expose my shoddy research so easily, but where are his fact checkers and editors? If I’m gonna do this full time, somebody needs to pay me. Of course, this is the same “news” network whose reporters like White House correspondent Jim Acosta have a conniption fit when President Trump accurately describes their network as fake news, which tells me for that alleged news network, image is far more important than accuracy.
But does CNN have any standards or any sort of quality control within their organization?
I take a lot of pride in my work. I’m paranoid that I’m going to make an egregiously false statement by mistake one day–sort of like Chris Cillizza just did by saying voter fraud doesn’t exist, when contradictory evidence is so easy to find. Before I put any claim into print, I usually try to find multiple sources that support that claim (such as my claim that voter fraud does exist. Cillizza could have claimed “widespread” voter fraud doesn’t exist and maybe gotten away with it, but that isn’t what he said.) So far I’ve included the links to five different articles about voter fraud, and a couple more are provided below.
It is highly unusual for any voting district to have 100 percent turnout, meaning every registered voter showed up and filled out a ballot. Thirty-seven percent of Detroit’s precincts had more votes cast than registered voters, meaning more than one of every three voting precincts had more than 100 percent turnout, and that’s statistically impossible. According to Investor’s Business Daily, the U.S. currently has 3.5 million more registered voters than adults legally eligible to vote, which is a recipe for voter fraud.
The state of California is offering illegal immigrants the opportunity to vote, which is going to disenfranchise millions of legitimate and legal citizen voters by diluting their vote and making it meaningless, the ultimate form of voter fraud.
CNN reports fake news by denying that fake voters exist because they’re a fake news network.
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