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The parent poster was referring to election fraud, not voter fraud. They're different. Voter fraud is when someone casts a vote they should not have, e.g. becau
by Frondo 7y ago
The parent poster was referring to election fraud, not voter fraud. They're different. Voter fraud is when someone casts a vote they should not have, e.g. because they moved or they've cast multiple votes. Election fraud is when election officials tamper with the election.
There are documented cases of both, but the Heritage website, documenting about 1,200 over a period of at least 20 years (I didn't check every state, but the earliest I saw was 2000) is an insignificant amount of voter fraud over 20 years and hundreds of millions of votes cast. Even if they underreported by a factor of 100, that's no threat to democracy.
- btilly 7y agoAh, election fraud like illegal voter suppression? Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File? Or how about tampering with ballots after they have been cast like http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-rea...? (Of course if you go back a little ways in history, the most egregious was probably Tammany Hall. Election fraud has a rather long history.)