Washington Post fact-checks Hillary Clinton on voter-suppression claims – IOTW Report

Washington Post fact-checks Hillary Clinton on voter-suppression claims

FOX: The Washington Post’s fact-checker sharply critiqued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her claims on Sunday concerning voter suppression in Wisconsin and Georgia in the 2016 presidential election.

“Clinton made several factual errors, offered questionable claims about a couple of studies, and ended up giving a misleading assessment of her loss,” Salvador Rizzo wrote in his column. The Post gave Clinton “Four Pinocchios.”

“I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference,” Clinton said Sunday in Selma, Ala., commemorating “Bloody Sunday.” “And it doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia; it made a difference in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 [thousand] and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.”

“Wrong on multiple levels, seriously misleading and worth a cumulative Four Pinocchios,” the Post piece concluded.

Clinton also faulted the Supreme Court for voter turnout in 2016, something The Post disputed.  MORE

14 Comments on Washington Post fact-checks Hillary Clinton on voter-suppression claims

  1. Sorry, when Hillary says……

    “where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 [thousand] and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.”

    ….that is not a factual error. That is an outright lie. Much like anything that comes out of her mouth when she speaks.

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  2. If you can stomach that video of Hillary, you will see such a vile, vicious cunt she is.
    She is the devil incarnate.

    She wants a race war.
    She wants blacks fighting whites 24/7.

    We are so fortunate that the words “President Hillary” will only ever be spoken in jest.

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  3. These are the death throes of Hillary Goddamn Clinton. She realizes her worst nightmare is coming true…irrelevancy! Kick and scream HRC but the crowds grow smaller, the venues less meaningful and the people less interested. Have you tried painting?

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  4. I guess she is not accusing anyone of the millions of illegal votes, since those were cast in her favor. Maybe by “suppression” she means illegal votes should count and not be looked at closely or discouraged because those all democrat communist votes.

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  5. If, and that is a big if, that many minority voters were turned away because of the color of their skin, you have to ask where those areas would have been that had that many minorities to be turned away. Wouldn’t they be in Milwaukee and Madison which are Democratic strongholds?

    Is this another case where the Democrats do something and then blame it on the Republicans? If you recall after the 2000 election the Democrats said that minority ares in Florida were given old, broken down voting machines. Those minority areas were all in Democratic controlled areas.

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