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- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
After a Year of Intense Scrutiny, We Now Know that Voter Fraud is Even More Rare than We Thought
No one with any knowledge of the electoral process ever really believed voter fraud was a problem. Sure, after every election there are a few cases prosecuted, but no widespread attempt to steal elections and nothing that would change the outcome in state-wide elections. And, after a year of chasing down every wild accusation by Donald Trump and his supporters, we now know that voter fraud is even more rare than we thought, As we have noted before, there have been many studie
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
Prosecutors Across the US Find Almost No Evidence of Voter Fraud in Last Two Election Cycles
Bloomberg News contacted prosecutors in all 50 states to determine how many cases of voter fraud they had found since the November 2018 election and including the recent presidential election. Despite the hundreds of millions of votes in the last two federal election cycles, state prosecutors have found a total of about 200 instances of voter fraud, and at least one of those concerned changing votes in a high school homecoming contest. In their report, Bloomberg correctly poi
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
AZ Finds a Fraudulent Vote; Man Suspected of Killing His Wife Also Cast Ballot for Her
Yes, OK, this is not an important story, but it so completely captures the Trump era that we couldn't resist. So, there is this guy in Arizona named Barry Morphew who has now admitted to voting for his wife Suzanne illegally, telling investigators that he thought his wife would have voted for Trump anyway. It's an isolated case much like the Trump voter in Pennsylvania that voted for his dead mom and was sentenced to five years probation in April. It proves that out of tens o
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
GOP Controlled Legislatures are Considering 165 Bills to Make Voting More Difficult
If you don't like the outcome change the rules. After Donald Trump's loss in November and his baseless and often cringe-worthy voter fraud conspiracy theories, it was inevitable that Republicans would cook-up new ways to make voting more difficult. They have been doing it for decades, with mixed success, but Trump's voter fraud fantasies have taken it to an entirely new level. We have discussed the issue a number of times: Illuminate: "During his years in office, and especial
- Jun 12, 2020
- 3 min
New Research Shows that Universal Vote By Mail Doesn't Encourage Fraud or Benefit Either Party
Health officials are almost unanimous in saying that because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the safest way to conduct the Fall election is universal vote-by-mail [VBM] in which every voter is sent a ballot to fill out and return. However, Donald Trump opposes such a system, arguing, without evidence, that the system would provide an advantage to Democratic candidates because it would encourage greater voter turn-out rates, and because it would encourage fraud. The President's repe
- May 23, 2020
- 2 min
Trump's Florida Election Fraud Allegations Proved to be Just Another Conspiracy Theory
Donald Trump regularly complains about election fraud and he is using it as a reason to oppose mail-in voting for the November election. It's a weak argument because numerous studies have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare, and his own election fraud commission, established after the 2016 election, shut down because it couldn't find any evidence of voter fraud. There are always a few odd cases, like the recent scandal in North Carolina's 9th district which involved vote
