Voter Fraud in Elections
In the last two elections (2016 and 2020), the specter of voter fraud arises. Such in both elections was disproven or mostly disproven. There will be voting issue on a different order outside of fraud. In both 2016 and 2020 Candidate and President Trump raised the issue of voter fraud. In 2024 we heard similar during this election. Just more unfounded gossip as a basis for casting aspersions on the other elements of elections in general. It makes for a good excuse too!
No Widespread Voter Fraud in Either 2016 or 2020 Elections? Others say differently even if they win. There is a constant undertone of voter fraud by Trump. After the 2016 election, Republican President Trump asked for an investigation. I am sure there will be one for 2024 also.
“Trump commission did not find widespread voter fraud,” PBS News
2018: Republican President Donald Trump convened a commission to investigate the 2016 presidential election after making unsubstantiated claims that between 3 million and 5 million ballots were illegally cast. Critics, which included Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap rejected Trump’s his claims of widespread voter fraud. The documents show there was a “pre-ordained outcome” and that drafts of a commission report included a section on evidence of voter fraud which was “glaringly empty.”
“It is calling into the darkness, looking for voter fraud,” Dunlap told The Associated Press. “There’s no real evidence of it anywhere.”
Republican President Donald Trump convened the commission to investigate the 2016 presidential election after making unsubstantiated claims that between 3 million and 5 million ballots were illegally cast. Critics, including Dunlap, reject his claims of widespread voter fraud.
Of course Republican critics have pushed back against Dunlap. In this case, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said a deeper analysis would have revealed more. Except as Dunlap says . . .
“Kobach said there have been more than 1,000 convictions for voter fraud since 2000, and that the commission presented 8,400 instances of double voting in the 2016 election in 20 states.
“Had the commission done the same analysis of all 50 states, the number would have been exponentially higher.”
In response Maine SOS Matthew Dunlap said. those figures were never brought before the commission. Kobach hasn’t presented any evidence for his claims of double voting. He said the commission was presented with a report claiming over 1,000 convictions for various forms of voter misconduct since 1948. Hmmm, 1948 vs 2000 . . .
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After the 2020 Election, the Trump campaign hired an investigator to again check for Voter fraud.
Voter data expert hired by Trump campaign says 2020 election was not stolen, The Hill
In 2020, Ken Block, was hired by the Trump campaign to find voter fraud in the election. He later penned an op-ed Tuesday stating unequivocally the 2020 presidential election was not stolen. There was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election. It appears there may have been something. From Ken Blocks opinion, it was not substantial.
USA Today . . . “Can a steady diet of lies and innuendo overcome the truth?”
AB: It is like starting a whispering campaign with one person in the beginning and waiting to see how it has changed or evolved many people down the line. That can be intentional changes or mistakes in interpretation.
The USA Today op-ed added.
“In November 2020, former President Donald Trump asserted voter fraud had altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The day after the election, his campaign hired an expert in voter data to attempt to prove Trump’s allegations and put him back in the White House.”
Block wrote. “I am the expert who was hired by the Trump campaign.”
His company’s findings were communicated directly to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Transcripts of depositions taken by the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol “show the campaign found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of any election.”
But as we all know the committee was anti-Trump.