The Dead Wife Voter Fraud Story Is Fake — And 50,000 Conservatives Are Claiming It As Their Own

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]I will take things that did not happen for a thousand, please, Alex.

[00:00:05]>> My uncle who lives in California comes out after voting and asked the polling officer, "Hey, did my wife vote today?"

[00:00:14]The officer checks the list and says, "Yes, sir, she already voted." My uncle got emotional and said, "If only I would have come earlier, maybe I could have met her." The officer asks, "You two don't live together?" My uncle sighed and said, "Son, she passed away 15 years ago, but every election she still shows up to vote. I just never get to see her."

[00:00:40]>> The illusory effect is a cognitive bias where repeated exposure to a statement increases the likelihood of believing it is true.

[00:00:48]Even if it is completely false or contradicts prior knowledge.

[00:00:54]Now, she didn't make that story up. She just heard it from another conservative who heard it from another conservative who heard it from another conservative who made it up to demonize the people that they didn't like.

[00:01:06]Because they fully understand that they don't need any sort of proof. They just need a really compelling story.

[00:01:13]Because the truth would be that they are aware that most people don't agree with their politics. Most people don't agree with their hateful world view.

[00:01:20]And most people don't want to vote for an oppressive hateful regime.

[00:01:26]They don't want to hear that most cases of voter fraud are from conservatives.

[00:01:32]Because then they would have to admit to themselves that they're the bad people that their made-up stories are talking about.

[00:01:41]You all have a good one.

[00:01:45]It's just Here's the thing.

[00:01:49]You can find that version of a story.

[00:01:55]My grandpa went and voted. My uncle went and voted. my so-and-so went and voted, and asked the guy, "Did my wife vote?"

[00:02:01]Uh yeah, she votes every election, but she died 15 years ago. You can find that story from 5,000 people on social media that all have the exact same story.

[00:02:14]10,000 people, 50,000 people, who the hell knows how many people on the conservative side of the political aisle that make content for the various social media sites regurgitate that exact same story.

[00:02:27]How do you exist in an echo chamber where you hear that story? You know you hear that story from person after person after person after person after person in your sphere, and then you run with it as if it were your own story.

[00:02:48]That never happened.

[00:02:50]It didn't happen to your grandpa. It didn't happen to your uncle. It didn't happen to your aunt. It didn't happen to your grandma. It didn't happen to your father. It didn't happen to your mother.

[00:03:02]You know nobody that that happened to.

[00:03:04]Nobody.

[00:03:06]You, as the gentleman correctly pointed out, heard that story and ran with it as if it was your own because it fits your already predetermined biases on elections.

[00:03:20]But, this is who they are.

[00:03:23]That person who made that video, that woman, she's heard that story in her echo sphere 20,000 times.

[00:03:31]Didn't stop her from running with it as if it were her own.