Filmmakers say the movement to uncover “voter fraud” grew out of the backlash against expanded voting rights following President Obama’s election in 2008.
, “Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook,” which chronicles the many ways votes were repressed in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, argues that it often occurs in the light of day.
The filmmakers say the political movement to uncover “voter fraud” grew out of the backlash against the expansion of voting rights after President Barack Obama’s election in 2008. Proponents of voter restrictions claimed that there were thousands, maybe millions, of votes that were illegally cast, though no one ever produced any evidence of fraud on this scale.
9) The Voter Integrity Commission, which was established by Trump in the aftermath of the 2016 election to root out voter fraud. It has since been disbanded.’ shows how the right to vote is under attack from every direction, and we need to let people know about it,” said executive producers Mac Heller and Timothy Smith. “Unless we act now and seek to protect and, yes, augment the right to vote, we will witness the slow bleed-out of our democracy.
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