Three million illegal votes for Trump? It’s a wack-job idea.
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1.5 minute read) 
President Trump told a bipartisan group of legislators in Washington on Tuesday that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because three million people voted illegally.
The media’s knee-jerk response was a distraction: stories about Trump’s ego and how he can’t stand the fact that he lost to Hillary or that he’s an unpopular president.
And while they were taking shots at his ego Trump ordered an investigation into voter fraud.
This is his Tweet on the matter:
Voting rights proponents see this investigation as opening a door to strengthen voter ID laws because the definition of fraud can be tweaked to include voters who are registered in several places. We’re a mobile community, so the fact that there are voters registered in several cities or states is not a matter of fraud but a matter of voter-roll upkeep.
I have a daughter who is registered to vote in three cities in two states, because she’s lived in those places and the local elections administrators still have her on the rolls. But she only votes in one. She could be pegged as an illegal voter even though having multiple registrations is not against the law – voting in multiple places in the same election is.
Unless, Trump is referring to undocumented immigrants voting in a U.S. presidential election. In which case, the thought of 3 million undocumented people conspiring to vote is a monumental wack-job idea. There isn’t an elegant way to say it because it’s an inelegant thought.
Trump’s voter fraud investigation, which could count a large, mobile voter pool as fraudulent voters, could serve as evidence for the need for stricter voter ID laws. And that’s the danger of this thing.
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