Despite GOP rhetoric, there have been fewer than two dozen charged cases of voter fraud since the el

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The GOP voter suppression laws are solutions in search of a problem. In Texas, we had the worst voter id law in the country that was eventually gutted by the conservative 5th Circuit because the GOP could not provide any evidence of voter fraud. The same happened for the Kansas proof of citizenship law to register to vote promoted by that asshole Kobach. Kobach could not provide any evidence of voter fraud

Knowing that this will be an issue, there has been a search for examples of voter fraud and this search has found no systematic voter fraud

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Yet for all of those claims and even with the Republican Party’s concentrated focus on the idea during the past six months, there remains no credible evidence that any significant fraud occurred. There’s lots of putative evidence, sure, random affidavits in which nonexperts allege weirdness or claims about ballot nefariousness that is quickly debunked. But even after months and months and months of formal and informal scrutiny, there have been no demonstrated examples of systemic efforts to commit voter fraud.

In fact, a review of local news reports shows there aren’t many examples of even individual voter fraud. By our count, there have been only 16 incidents in which someone has faced criminal charges stemming from their attempt to vote illegally. This includes instances in which it isn’t clear whether a ballot was cast but excludes failed efforts to obtain absentee ballots.


Those incidents:

Thurman, above.
A man and woman from Austin who allegedly tried to vote in Illinois by claiming residence in that state. It’s not clear whether they obtained ballots.
A man in Lisle, Ill., who allegedly signed a ballot certification with someone else’s name.
A man in Carol Stream, Ill., who allegedly filled out an online ballot application for someone who shared his last name. It’s not clear whether the ballot was provided.
A woman in Naperville, Ill., who allegedly signed a ballot certification with someone else’s name.
A woman in Buckingham, Pa., who allegedly signed a ballot declaration for her dead mother.
A woman in Quakertown, Pa., who claims to have accidentally mailed a ballot for her mother after she died.
A woman from Milford, Maine, who reported herself for voting twice, once by absentee at home and once in person at college.
A woman from Bowdoinham, Maine, who allegedly voted with an absentee ballot for a former roommate.
A woman in Cedarburg, Wis., who allegedly submitted a ballot for a dead person.
A man in Stockton, N.J., who allegedly submitted a ballot for a dead person.
A man in Carteret, N.J., who allegedly voted twice with different names.
A man in Woodbridge, N.J., who allegedly registered at his business instead of his home.
A man from Media, Pa., who admitted to casting a ballot for his dead mother.
A man from Canton, Mich., who admitted to filling out his daughter’s ballot when she was at college.

That’s it. That’s the total.

You will be seeing these stats being cited in the litigation that has been filed and which will be filed.