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Why does Trump believe every American who doesn’t vote for him has done something illegal?

Eric Foster
6 min readNov 6, 2020

I have a few legitimate questions for Trump supporters and the Republican-Trump party, starting with this? Why do you believe that the millions of Americans who vote for Democratic or 3rd party candidates for elected office are committing fraud, voting illegally or shouldn’t have our votes counted because you think we’ve committed a crime due to our voting choices?

Second question, why do you believe that you’re the only Americans who can cast legal votes and all other votes are criminal or shouldn’t be counted?

I ask these questions due to the evidence of your behavior towards voting access, voting rights and your acceptance that in an open Constitutional Republic with a Representative Democracy form of choosing our officials save the Presidency (Electoral College), you can and do lose elections.

Take this lawsuit filed by Trump’s campaign against the State of Michigan, Donald J. Trump for President v. Benson, №20–000225-MZ (Mich. Ct. Claims). Trump claims, that absentee ballot counting boards, as defined in MCL 168.765a, isn’t being conducted legally. Their main “claim” is that the establishment of absentee ballot drop boxes, constitutes an extension of the counting board room and therefore needed to have challengers posted at each drop box and each drop board to be videotaped from the day of placement to election day as compliance with handling a ballot container in the counting board room. They “claim”…

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Eric Foster
Eric Foster

Written by Eric Foster

I'm a Father, 10th generation American (family roots to South Carolina, 1725 roughly), Political, Public Policy, Economic Theory & Data Analytics SME.

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