We can all remember how the Trump administration promised to set up a new commission to delve into election fraud. The preliminary investigation has begun and only a week into it and already, Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, has found that in just 28 states, there is already a massive number of problems. In a time when information can be shared so quickly and discreetly, and people become ever more mobile, it is more important than ever to ensure that the integrity of the nation’s elections is intact. A rude hybrid of modern technology and Liberal ideology have morphed our once easily trusted system into a broken machine with missing gears and a motor that sputters along on tainted fuel and clouds of dirty smoke.
Welcome to Leftist Utopia America where anyone can vote at any time and as often as you wish in any (or every) location. Even the questionable ballots can be filled out by voters who do not appear on the rolls, cast and counted before a viable investigation into the validity of the ballot ever takes place. By that time, the election is over and the results are written in stone, too late to make a change or recall, unless of course you’re Hillary Clinton calling on your useful idiots in the media and fellow Green Party candidates to mount a resistance.
The new commission on election fraud has taken its first tentative steps toward getting some solid evidence that supports the suspicions and contentions of the Right that there is broad and rampant violation of our election systems and that the Left is primarily the perpetrator of such fraud. It must also be pointed out that it does appear that over the past 20 years, the people continually caught breaking election laws have been Democrats. When you hear about another case of election fraud (from the Rightwing media of course, because it’s practically non-existent in the mainstream media) you never, ever once think to yourself, “Those Republicans are at it again!”
That being said, the information contained in the preliminary examination of voter rolls from only 28 states is staggering. If history is any indication, however, this will be only the tip of the voter fraud iceberg.
lol it’s all red now and has been for 7 years and look how great it’s working out for the rich lmfao your a fucking idiot
Obviously it’s not a myth. People are getting arrested left and right for it.
5000 out of state votes in new hampshire…just found out…..the fraud is real idiot
Voter fraud is extremely rare. There is no evidence at all that millions of people voted illegally. Experts are in wide agreement that the limited cases of voter fraud that do exist don’t swing national elections, because the few hundred or so cases that allegedly occur amount to a drop in the bucket in elections in which tens of millions of votes — and sometimes more than 100 million ballots — are cast.
The facts, however, haven’t stopped Republicans from complaining about voter fraud for years. The “rigged election” rhetoric that Trump has leveled throughout the entire election and afterward is in fact really a natural evolution of all the times Republicans and conservative media have suggested that there’s widespread voter fraud — typically in defense of very strict voter ID laws.
But the facts are very important here. There really is no reason that Americans should doubt the authenticity of the election and its results, no matter what their next president says.
Voter fraud is extremely rare. It doesn’t swing national elections or the national popular vote.
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When someone tries to cast a fraudulent ballot to boost his or her candidate, that’s voter fraud. It can take many forms, including voter impersonation, absentee fraud, double voting, insider ballot box stuffing, and voting by people who turn out to be ineligible.
Voter ID laws target voter impersonation: when someone tries to file a ballot while impersonating other people. Supporters of voter ID laws argue that requiring an ID for each vote makes this much harder, since voters will have to prove they really are the person they claim they are when voting.
But this type of voter fraud is nearly nonexistent. Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has tracked credible allegations of in-person voter impersonation for years. He found 35 total credible allegations between 2000 and 2014, constituting a few hundred ballots at most, when more than 800 million ballots were cast in national general elections and hundreds of millions more were cast in primary, municipal, special, and other elections.
Beyond voter impersonation, other kinds of voter fraud are more common but still extremely rare. Based on a previous investigation by News21, there are at most a few hundred allegations of voter fraud of all kinds every election — and nearly half of the allegations with a determined resolution were dropped with no charges upon further investigation. In a national election in which more than 130 million votes were cast, the cases amount to a fraction of a fraction of a percent of all votes cast — simply not enough fraud to affect the outcome of a presidential election.
As Chris Ashby, a Republican election lawyer, wrote for Vox, America has “a system of voting that is one of the cleanest and best in the world — in which all citizens should have faith and confidence.”
That doesn’t mean voter fraud has never happened and never had an impact. The New York Times, for instance, reported on a 1997 case in which it was revealed that Miami Mayor Xavier Suárez clinched his electoral victory “with the help of hundreds of absentee ballots bearing the names of dead people, felons and other ineligible voters.” While Suárez was never charged, he was eventually forced to step down from office after an appellate court threw out the absentee ballots.
But this type of situation, the empirical evidence and experts suggest, is likely far too rare to swing much bigger elections. When debating whether to do something about voter fraud, then, it’s important to consider whether the potential downsides — such as making it harder for people of color to vote or sowing doubt in US elections — are worth the upside of stopping a tiny number of fraudulent votes. Otherwise, you might get prominent politicians like Trump casting doubt on the entire electoral process.
How many DACA illegals voted with a I.D.?
Ol miguel isn’t from here. Don’t know why he’s so hot about OUR elections. Maybe we should start harassing Australians about THEIR politics. Gtfo mate. I hear your kangaroo calling.
It’s only just begun. People have been arrested. It definitely IS millions. Just wait. This is all going to come out just like the billions in fraud found at hud, irs and va.
I would like to think the majority are people who legitamately moved or died or otherwise became ineligable.
But i know better then to think a decent % is not fraud.
Of course, anyone that has moved to another state but was registered to vote in the state he left I’ll be registered in two states. I don’t doubt there are millions of people who were registered in different states but, how many of them voted more then once? .01% (MAYBE?)
Corruption run amuck! IDs to vote!