No, You Stole the Election! (Part 1)

Reflector

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Claims that a US election was rigged, fraudulent, illegitimate, or stolen are not new. But in recent years—despite the fact that our elections have grown increasingly secure—these claims have grown louder and more impassioned. Today, we begin our look back on past claims of stolen elections in American history, in the hopes that understanding them in their context will help shed light on our current political moment—and where we might be headed next. In this first installment, we speak to Megan McArdle, former writer for the Atlantic and current columnist at the Washington Post, about the stolen election claims in both the 1960 and 2000 elections. To become a subscriber visit us at reflector.show Email us at: hello@reflector.show Featuring Your Cheatin’ Heart by Patsy Cline and The Jordanaires Thank you to our sponsor. You can visit them here to learn more: GROUND.NEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're cheating
0:02.0	The only way they can win is to cheat on the ballots.
0:07.0	That's the way I'm looking.
0:08.0	You can run the best campaign.
0:10.0	You can even become the nominee, and you can have the elections stolen from it.
0:14.0	I think that the Bushes are intentionally trying to rig this election.
0:19.0	I think he's an illegitimate president that didn't really win.
0:21.6	You are absolutely right.
0:23.3	We will never give up.
0:24.7	We will never concede.
0:26.2	It doesn't happen.
0:27.3	You don't concede with his theft involved.
0:32.1	I'm Andy Mills.
0:33.6	You're listening to Reflector.
0:36.3	And today, in light of the upcoming 2024,.S. presidential election, we are going to take a look at the history of stolen election claims.
0:46.3	And try to understand why right now, even as our voting system has gotten increasingly more and more secure.
0:59.0	Claims of fraud, illegitimacy, and theft have been on the rise.
1:08.4	Chapter 1. The Dead Voters of 1960 Once upon a time, there were two men, both veterans of World War II.
1:13.6	This is Megan McArdle, reporter and columnist for the Washington Post.
1:18.1	One young, dashing and handsome, the sion of a wealthy Irish Catholic family.
1:23.9	The United States today is the great defender of freedom.
1:27.5	If we fail, that course fails all over the world.
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