{"id":42829,"date":"2020-05-23T01:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42829"},"modified":"2020-05-23T01:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:28:37","slug":"patrick-swills-the-voter-fraud-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42829","title":{"rendered":"Patrick swills the voter fraud Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23mailinvoting%20%23voterfraud&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dan-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33357\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dan-patrick-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dan-patrick-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dan-patrick-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dan-patrick.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Lt. Dan Patrick must&#8217;ve been mighty thirsty.<\/p>\n<p>So what does he do? He grabs a helping of the Kool-Aid being served by Donald Trump and his Republican pals to put down efforts to expand all-mail voting in time for the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, a Republican, says all-mail voting is a ploy by Democrats to &#8220;steal an election.&#8221; Do you get where he&#8217;s coming from?<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly thinks that mail-in voting is inherently corrupt, that it promotes rampant fraudulent voting. Well, it doesn&#8217;t. State election officials where mail-in voting occurs swear by its integrity.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the risk of being accused of engaging in <em>&#8220;what-aboutism,&#8221;<\/em> I want to offer this brief note.<\/p>\n<p>If Patrick thinks Democrats are trying to &#8220;steal&#8221; an election by encouraging more voters to cast ballots, it&#8217;s fair to wonder if Republicans are trying their own game of theft by limiting voter participation.<\/p>\n<p>In some quarters, they call it &#8220;voter suppression,&#8221; which is what many GOP officials have tried to do in several states.<\/p>\n<p>So, for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to toss out the voter theft accusation against Democrats, he ought to come clean on whether his own objection to mail-in voting is based on his own version of trying to &#8220;steal&#8221; an election.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it isn&#8217;t &#8220;laughable,&#8221; as Patrick suggests, for anyone younger than 65 to fear voting &#8220;in person.&#8221; Really, Dan? He should talk to any of the family members of younger victims of the killer disease. Tell <em>them<\/em> how laughable it is.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23mailinvoting%20%23voterfraud&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Lt. Dan Patrick must&#8217;ve been mighty thirsty. So what does he do? He grabs a helping of the Kool-Aid being served by Donald Trump and his Republican pals to put down efforts to expand all-mail voting in time for the 2020 presidential election. Patrick, a Republican, says all-mail voting is a ploy by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patrick swills the voter fraud Kool-Aid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9362,1255,5131],"class_list":["post-42829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-all-mail-voting","tag-dan-patrick","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42832,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42829\/revisions\/42832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}