If voter fraud changes the results of a election, does that democracy become a dictatorship?

[Kurska]

At what point can voter fraud turn a democracy into a dictatorship?
How many degrees of separation is there between a true democracy and a False republic where the incumbent gets 99.9% of the vote?

[Curtland1015]

1. It depends on a couple of things I guess...

...where the voter fraud is coming from, first off. What weights and measures that country has in place to keep balances of power in check. If that voter fraud is actually acted upon. Things like that.

[obliviously]

2. Your question is rather ambiguous. N/T

[Kurska]

4. "At what point can voter fraud turn a democracy into a dictatorship?" is my main point.

[obliviously]

5. You could arrive at several forms of government by illegal means

just because you won an election by fraud would not make you a dictator. There would be many more steps you would have to go through to gain absolute power.

[Oregone]

3. No, it actually depends on the style of rulership

But the two could likely go hand in hand

[IDemo]

6. Did you mean "election fraud"?

The fraud problem lies almost entirely with governments and political parties (see Iran-2009 and the USA-2000), not with deceitful voters.

[RagAss]

7. The results are invalid. It is a de facto coup.

[Mnemosyne]

8. It already did on Jan. 20, 2001. n/t