Elections·Severity 3 — Serious
Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It.
The post Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. appeared first on ProPublica . [kw:voter fraud]
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Voices on this issue
Independent voices from different starting points, on the record about this kind of action. The framework grades behavior, not party — these quotes come from people who would say the same thing under any administration.
From the right
“The first job of an opposition party in a free country is to win elections fairly. The first job of a governing party is to lose them gracefully when the time comes. Both are non-negotiable.”
Mona Charen
Conservative columnist; author of 'Sex Matters' and former speechwriter in the Reagan administration.
From Charen's essay 'What Are We Conserving?' The Bulwark, 'What Are We Conserving?'