Chris Webb argues that comparing Russian election interference to illegal voting is a straw man. He points out illegal voting would increase by only 0.0001% and that the real problem is systemic barriers in immigration that prevent people from becoming citizens legally.
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Author says, Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good? I don't think anyone's making that argument at all. So this is called the straw man tactic, where they're trying to pit you against something that doesn't exist, trying to deceive and manipulate by trying to tell me that this is a real argument and then having me distracted into defending something that's not real. It's just a gigantic waste of time. If the amount of illegals voting went up, it is 0.0001%. But the problem is we have too many of these arguments that don't make sense, that get us nowhere, that aren't productive, and we don't get to the core of the real issue, which is we have a systemic problem with the ability for those that want to gain citizenship here to have their version of the American dream, to