“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,”

Not if they both vote for the same person

We've seen this same story play out in Nevada.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/01/dhss-nevada-illegal-voter-claims-have-dropped-from-16000-to-200-to-zero-in-less-than-a-month/

They claim huge numbers, but when it's time to provide the evidence, they come up empty handed. That's why we are seeing the show of force with cameras and the media blitz. To create the perception of voter fraud to hide the fact that actual voter fraud is rare.

We know their numbers are bullshit too via Propublica:

HSI’s involvement in the hunt for election fraud traces at least to summer 2025, when agency supervisors embraced a proposal from a midlevel agent who’d publicly echoed Trump’s claims about elections. He argued the agency’s powerful databases and tools could find noncitizens even on the voter lists that states make publicly available, from which the most confidential information has been redacted. Under Trump, the Justice Department had collected many public voter rolls as part of a controversial effort to compel states to turn over the unredacted versions.

Those searches went forward, ProPublica’s reporting shows, helping to generate tens of thousands of leads regarding illegal voting across the country. But when HSI agents were sent to investigate them, the results were similar to what Teirab reported from Minnesota.

Between January 2025 and May 2026, a ProPublica analysis of Justice Department data shows, fewer than 150 alleged noncitizen voters were referred for prosecution. Even fewer — 41 — were charged with voting illegally or other election-related crimes. (More than 150 million people voted in the most recent presidential election.)

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There’s an array of reasons why Trump’s campaign to document claims of widespread voter fraud hasn’t succeeded. Most obviously, it’s exceedingly rare, as countless studies and state audits have found. Noncitizens often get on voter rolls by accident or when government officials make errors. Last month, New Jersey disclosed that a mistake involving its Motor Vehicle Commission caused 6,600 noncitizens to be registered (fewer than 400 voted).

There's no evidence of non citizens ever voting, because they can't.

as if CA is going to vote for trump lol. its just sound bites for faux news, to scare the magats, how shithole blue areas are. alot of travel influencers(conservatives) solely go to blue areas to do the same, and only visit extremely proverty stricken areas.

But but but 28 votes were saved! Surely democracy is safe now

And keep in mind that they've done nothing to actually verify that A) the people they've arrested are not citizens and B) that if they are not, that they actually registered to vote. In their own words, the list is of "likely non-citizens." So basically, they have a list of people who are permanent residents. If you, a citizen, happen to have the same name as someone on that list, and you're registered to vote, you are at risk of being arrested. Or, vice versa, if a person on that list has the same name as someone registered to vote, they might get arrested even though they did nothing wrong.

It affects a handful of people directly but it's intended to intimidate many more.

to distract from actual voter fraud the GOP is actually doing. voter suppression, ballot purging, closing count immediately as a gop is in the lead.

These are charges, not convictions.

Didn't they also demand California to not count another 20 000 ballots unless they are all investigated (a practical impossibility in the short time) so it's a bit more being demanded?

It’s the chilling effect. They are trying to scare the general population out of showing up at the polls.

They don't need any more people to vote for them, they just need more people to not vote against them.

It works for Putin.

Unfortunately Trump's base is very cruel, and yes they do enjoy seeing this.

They will scream one minute about abortion, then scream the next about how all the children in Palestine deserve to die.

This is not hyperbole. This is the real politics over here right now, and it's fucking insane.

No they believe that if they stop everyone who will vote against them from voting, that the handful of die hard supporters will carry the rest. They aren't trying to motivate the base, they are trying to either arrest or intimidate the opposition.

Yes. And it keeps working.

All the white South Africans they're importing probably

Sounds like Republicans intend to start arresting state election officials, and the bar they've set for doing that is so low that they can basically arrest whomever they want, and thereby shut down polling or counting facilities at will.