Is voter fraud as rampant as *some* claim it is?

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/#choose-a-state

The short answer: no. The longer answer: still no. 

Following the 2020 presidential election and former President Trump's defeat by now President Biden, the GOP and other higher up party officials began spewing rhetoric that the election was "stolen" and began to do everything in their power to find instances of voter fraud that contributed to Trump losing his reelection bid. In a report done by The Heritage Foundation, they found that since 1982 (yes, you read that right. Just under 40 years ago) there have only been 1,334 cases of proven voter fraud. While that could be considered enough to turn a single presidential election (e.g. Bush/Gore 2000 and those ~500 votes), that has been spread across decades and cannot account for the "millions" of votes that were claimed to had been stolen in 2020. The math simply does not add up.

The article I found that sparked this deep dive into voter fraud was about a man in Nevada who admitted to voting twice (for who, we do not know). In Nevada, since 2012, only five people have been convicted of voter fraudulence. Five. Again, not enough to back up stolen election claims that clouded the months following the 2020 election and was a contributing factor to the January 6th riot. 

Many states have voter fraud safeguards in place. For example, when I went to vote in the January run-off election I had requested an absentee ballot but then was able to go vote in person (and get my sticker). I was unable to receive my card to vote until I had a) surrendered my absentee ballot, b) gotten confirmation from headquarters, and c) signed something that I'm pretty sure was me stating that I had surrendered my ballot. Voter fraud can be incredibly difficult to pull off for everyday people and research continues to prove that it is not as prevalent as some would like us to believe. 

Vegas man to admit voting twice in November 2020 election

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  1. Michael BridgesDecember 1, 2021 at 7:25 AM

    It has been a whole year since the 2020 election and still the lies and misinformation surrounding the election is still existing even though the insurrection has been a huge stain on the democracy of America. Furthermore the new voting restriction law is design to discourage new voters or current voters to make an impact on their government. Although is gives citizens the right to check their government it still an attempt to silence the minority of this country.

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