MTG Pushes New Conspiracy as Democrat Leads Key House Race

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has come up with another conspiracy theory – that Democrats are stealing the California election race.

In California’s 13th congressional district, votes are still being counted, and Republican Representative John Duarte fell behind Democrat Adam Gray by a narrow margin Tuesday night. For Greene, this means something bad is going on.

“Democrats are stealing another House seat! Elections statewide should be same day, paper ballots, and require proof of citizenship and ID!! Greene posted on X Wednesday morning.

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California has fully embraced voting by letterstarting nationwide from 2022. As long as the ballots are postmarked by Election Day, they are allowed up to one week to count, up from three days after the 2022 midterm elections. That year, half of the state’s ballots were counted after Election Day, meaning the long wait time to count the ballots is not an estimate.

In Republican-run states, though, such agreements are rare. Greene’s hometown Georgiafor example, ballots are not universal but must be requested in advance. Ballots must be received within three days of Election Day, even if the voter is overseas or in the military.

Greene and his fellow conservatives seem to have the ridiculous idea that the easier it is to vote, the more likely it is that Democrats and the left are rigging the election. In fact, making voting easier allows for greater participation from people who are poor, don’t have access to easy transportation, work long hours, or are disabled, posted overseas, or any number of reasonable reasons.

Even in places like California, things can be made easier through various changes, such as making Election Day national holiday. But such efforts have always been there to be challenged and Republicans, who have long seen high-profile voters as a boost to Democrats. Maybe now that Donald Trump and the GOP have actually won the popular vote in 2024, they’ll stop trying. ban voting.