To ALL who want to call "VOTER FRAUD," like EVERY FRAUD, YOU HAVE TO PROVE IT. Allegations prove nothing. Alleging voter fraud only says you are afraid of voter fraud.
"Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States"
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database presents a sampling of proven instances of election fraud from across the country. This database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list, but is intended to demonstrate the many ways in which fraud is committed. Preventing, deterring, and prosecuting election fraud is essential to protecting the integrity of our voting process.
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
1,177
Proven instances of voter fraud
1,019
Criminal convictions
48
Civil penalties
81
Diversion program
14
Judicial finding
15
Not much to worry abut in reality. We cannot prove a negative, of course, no one can or ever has.
These statistics date from ___[report did not say!]___. What do these numbers mean? Without a time date these numbers mean nothing. Is Heritage trying to make us see a problem where there is no problem, other than occasional cheats?
"Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth"
The president has continued to claim voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 election. But a look at the facts makes clear fraud is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to “rig” an election.
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth
"Trump’s nutty, but what’s everyone else’s excuse for voting fraud delusions?"
By Jennifer Rubin November 15 at 10:30 AM
"President Trump provided the country with a great service on Wednesday: He showed how utterly inane are the voting fraud hysterics. Asked about voting fraud he said two things: You need an ID to buy cereal (if it has alcohol in it?), a statement so dumb that George H.W. Bush should get another round of apologies for his supermarket scanner observation (which was incorrectly reported).
That wasn’t nearly as revealing as Trump’s other claim: “When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on.”"
Wow! Loony Tunes! Trump / Tweety really loves a good laugh!
" . . . it’s serious when Republicans use the myth of voter fraud, the myth of impersonating-your-neighbor voter fraud, to devise barriers to voting."
Voter suppression and voter fraud mongering is bad for democracy, but who cares, right?
"In 2017, Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson looked at the impact of voter ID laws. The results were compelling:
First and most important, we have data from the nation’s most recent elections (2006-2014) and can single out and test the effect of the strict voter ID laws in multiple elections and multiple states. (We define states with “strict voter ID laws” as states where residents cannot vote without presenting valid identification during or after the voting process.)
Second, we have validated voting data so we know whether each of our respondents actually voted. Third, we have a huge sample — over a third of a million Americans from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study — which means that we can analyze the participation of racial and ethnic minorities in all states both before and after strict ID laws are implemented . . .
Hispanics are affected the most: Turnout is 7.1 percentage points lower in general elections and 5.3 points lower in primaries in strict ID states than it is in other states. Strict ID laws mean lower African American, Asian American and multiracial American turnout as well. White turnout is largely unaffected,
The results are so stark that we’ve now seen one voter ID law after another fail.
So, on one side you have the cereal ID and voter impersonation nonsense — suggesting no rational basis for belief in widespread fraud — and, on the other, you have one federal ruling after another and a comprehensive voting study that has yet to be rebutted attesting to a significant discriminatory impact of voter ID laws. Believing in massive voter fraud is on a par with climate change denial — and sadly both show the Trumpized GOP’s willingness to depart from reality."
This is ugly. The facts prove the voter fraud crap is crap. Yet the GOP still peddles this crap. Why? Does the GOP really hate our democracy enough to destroy it so they can rule America?
Go back to the first reference in this blog: "Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth"
