Having spent enough time on the wingnut blogosphere, I cannot possibly overemphasize how much these people don't think anyone else should be allowed to vote. No, of course they don't believe there was fraud in California's voting. Or more precisely, to them, the voting was the fraud.
A topic that would come up, not exactly often, but regularly enough to be noticeable, was "who is it we should be restricting from voting?" Popular responses included: dual citizens; citizens who live abroad; citizens who were born to immigrant parents; citizens who didn't pay income taxes; citizens who hadn't served in the military; Muslims; and, of course, women.
Two little things that made this even more interesting. One, it was never the actual bloggers who prompted it. I never saw a post titled "How To Improve Our Electorate By Restricting Voting." It always arose spontaneously in the comments section. Two, I never saw anybody push back. Not once did a commenter say "guys, is it really okay to stop people from voting because we don't agree with their politics?" It was always completely explicit: we have to do this because those demographics vote Democrat.
Which says so much about how utterly mainstream and widely accepted this position is in red states.
All those catchphrases like "we're a republic not a democracy" and "we're just trying to stop voter fraud?" They're literally just trolling you. They know perfectly well that the people they're targeting are entitled to vote. They just don't want them to. Adopting universal suffrage and the idea that a government should derive its power from the consent of the governed, to conservatives, was a hate crime against them.
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