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Similarly, despite having a rule forbidding listing any real-world examples that are more recent than four decades, the Vote Early, Vote Often trope page's real life examples section explicitly rejects the notion that voter fraud was widespread (as well as citing the [[fake news]] site ''[[Washington Post]]'' as its proof for being rare) during the 2010 decade and falsely implies that Republicans and Conservatives simply were "delusional" for believing it, and even accusing the Republican congressional candidate of North Carolina of doing the same.<ref>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoteEarlyVoteOften
Similarly, despite having a rule forbidding listing any real-world examples that are more recent than four decades, the Vote Early, Vote Often trope page's real life examples section explicitly rejects the notion that voter fraud was widespread (as well as citing the [[fake news]] site ''[[Washington Post]]'' as its proof for being rare) during the 2010 decade and falsely implies that Republicans and Conservatives simply were "delusional" for believing it, and even accusing the Republican congressional candidate of North Carolina of doing the same.<ref>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoteEarlyVoteOften
*In the United States, voter fraud is [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/?utm_term=.760ad11d0395 very rare] but has become a major rallying cry for the Republican Party, particularly in The New '10s as justification for strict voter ID laws. Donald Trump has made sweeping accusations against Democrats, from claiming that millions of illegal immigrants voted against him in California in 2016, to claiming people voted multiple times via donning disguises in the 2018 midterm elections. This was widely mocked by people tweeting multiple images purporting to be the disguises they wore to cast more than one ballot. That election also had a high-profile case in North Carolina's ninth district where absentee ballots were meddled with in various ways to favor the Republican candidate.</ref> It also calls "cure your gays" a "discredited" trope despite the fact that ex-homosexuals do exist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--BuHXVA70&feature=youtu.be</ref>
*In the United States, voter fraud is [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/?utm_term=.760ad11d0395 very rare] but has become a major rallying cry for the Republican Party, particularly in The New '10s as justification for strict voter ID laws. Donald Trump has made sweeping accusations against Democrats, from claiming that millions of illegal immigrants voted against him in California in 2016, to claiming people voted multiple times via donning disguises in the 2018 midterm elections. This was widely mocked by people tweeting multiple images purporting to be the disguises they wore to cast more than one ballot. That election also had a high-profile case in North Carolina's ninth district where absentee ballots were meddled with in various ways to favor the Republican candidate.</ref> It also calls "cure your gays" a "discredited" trope despite the fact that ex-homosexuals do exist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--BuHXVA70&feature=youtu.be</ref> During the 2020 election cycle as well as the aftermath, they not only deny there being rampant voter fraud despite sufficient evidence coming in independently of what Trump stated that the election was stolen, but even went as far as to implicitly accuse Donald Trump of telling Republicans to engage in such.<ref>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoteEarlyVoteOften
*Trump also caused a bit of a stir two months before the 2020 presidential election when he, an ardent detractor of mail-in voting, urged mail-in voters to also cast their ballot at their election office to make sure their vote was properly counted[note his reasoning being that if your mail-in vote was valid, your in-person vote would automatically fail, and if the latter was counted because your mail-in hadn't yet arrived, it would be ignored instead. Despite his attacks, he came off as a hypocrite when he voted via mail.] Though legally sound, detractors criticized Trump's approach as a veiled attempt to get Republican voters to vote twice.
*In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Trump and several of his allies have claimed that the victory of Joe Biden was only due to widespread voter fraud. These claims have been widely disputed and are generally considered to not be credible, though that has not stopped Trump from attempting to get himself declared the winner anyway in what critics have on occassion called a coup attempt.</ref>
The real life section of the trope "Blind Obedience" hints that conservative people never question authority and falsely labels fascism as part of the right-wing, though this does not describe all conservatives; in fact, there are even some liberals and a lot of leftists that display a lot of blind obedience more than what TV Tropes accuses conservatives of being. It also implies that conservative leaders are the ones who have zero tolerance for any dissent, when such a description actually matches left-wing dictatorships and left-wing leaders more (eg, Karl Marx was known to throw out anyone who dared suggest he might even slightly be wrong in his thinking).<ref>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlindObedience</ref>
The real life section of the trope "Blind Obedience" hints that conservative people never question authority and falsely labels fascism as part of the right-wing, though this does not describe all conservatives; in fact, there are even some liberals and a lot of leftists that display a lot of blind obedience more than what TV Tropes accuses conservatives of being. It also implies that conservative leaders are the ones who have zero tolerance for any dissent, when such a description actually matches left-wing dictatorships and left-wing leaders more (eg, Karl Marx was known to throw out anyone who dared suggest he might even slightly be wrong in his thinking).<ref>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlindObedience</ref>