The Election Fraud Debate: How Are Votes Really Stolen?

American Thinker ^ | 17 Mar, 2026 | John F. Di Leo

[MtnClimber]

The probability of election fraud is astronomical, given the potential spoils for the winners.

Now look at government -- just a few examples:

The City of Chicago has a $16.6 billion budget. There are tens of thousands of cities in the U.S., most of them smaller than that, but all of them containing an array of sub-accounts, from road funds to office space rental, to staff and foodservice and maintenance contracts.

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There are cities where pollworkers load up the machine with votes before the polls open, or where busloads of patronage workers drive around the city on election day, casting ballots under assumed names, in every polling place they can reach in the hours alotted.

There are cities where pollworkers bribe voters with a bottle of booze or a box lunch, to fill out their ballots under the watchful eye of the precinct captain, or even to let the captain fill them out himself.

There are places where green-card holders or outright illegals are brought to the polls to vote, having been automatically registered by the motor-voter program, often unaware that they aren’t actually allowed to vote. And more often, those noncitizens aren’t trying to vote at all, but their names on the rolls enable a precinct worker to cast ballots on their behalf, without their knowledge.

There are college towns where students change addresses every year, or even every semester, resulting in dozens of unpurged registrations, per apartment or per dorm, that were once valid, but are no longer, for a current occupant or R.A. or building manager to utilize.

There are nursing homes all over the country, full of senile, comatose, or heavily medicated patients who could never cast an intentional vote themselves, so their nurses or nursing home managers do it for them.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; theyarent

[MtnClimber]

I bet almost all voter fraud benefits democRATs.

[mitchjackson1972]

Yet most people here in this forum believe elections are honest

[ClearCase_guy]

All over the Western world, nations are ruled by a political class which hates the voters and hates the nation. The UK? Germany? France? USA? So many politicians hate the people who (ostensibly) elected them to office.

My conclusion is that the Western world hasn’t really had much in the way of honest elections for decades. It’s all rigged. The GOP refusal to pass the SAVE Act pretty much tells that story.

[MtnClimber]

It seems that Maduro may be singing like a canary about US politicians accepting bribes in return for purchasing Dominion voting machines which could be hacked by foreign actors.

[House Atreides]

“… drive around the city on election day, casting ballots under assumed names, in every polling place they can reach in the hours alotted.…”
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This is endemic in DemocRAT controlled counties and cities in Maryland. Very extended periods of early voting make it easier for them. Of course it’s augmented by absentee voting fraud.

[caprock]

The ONLY political party CONTINUOUSLY justifying/defending/perpetuating voter fraud is the demonrat party.

[Brian Griffin]

“This is endemic in DemocRAT controlled counties and cities in Maryland. Very extended periods of early voting make it easier for them. Of course it’s augmented by absentee voting fraud.”

Has anybody posting here been told that they had already voted even if they didn’t?

Can anybody post a link about an incident of a person being told they had already voted even if they apparently didn’t?

[cuz1961]

a link about an incident of

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What ?

Like pMS NOW, CNN , ect , link.?

Politico ?

if they refuse to report it , did it really happen?

[ChessExpert]

He provides a reasoned argument.

Historically Tammany Hall provides the picture of big city machine politics and corruption. From search assist:

“Tammany Hall, a powerful political machine in New York City, was notorious for its involvement in voter fraud during the 19th and early 20th centuries, using tactics like ballot manipulation and vote buying to secure political power. This corruption was exemplified by figures like Boss Tweed, who famously stated that the counters, not the ballots, determined election outcomes.”

The Democrats have been doing this for a long time.

If Mr. Di Leo offers a second article; he could discuss electronic voter fraud. The potential for this was shown when supposedly stand-alone vote counting machines were found to be connected to the internet.

[Fai Mao]

“Yet most people here in this forum believe elections are honest”

I don’t think that’s true.

[liberalh8ter]

There’s another form of vote fraud no one ever talks about; voting while receiving welfare. There’s nothing on the books about it because government welfare wasn’t something our founders thought about. That was the job of the Church.

[sten]

ballot box stuffing is one way to cheat

repeatedly counting the same stack of ballots INSIDE the election office is another

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[oldtech]

I’m not at all sure that most voters think elections are honest. I’ve been voting for a long time & there are a lot of deceptive practices in the processs. If all elections were honest, we would not have near the problems we have now trying to overcome Democrat traitors.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The Dominion voting machines and mail in ballots are the two worst fraud mechanisms. Then no voter ID after that.

[Bon of Babble]

Or in California where everyone, dead, alive or moved out of state, gets at least one mail-in ballot, votes are counted up to 14 days after the election, even if not signed or postmarked, and ballot harvesters are ready to collect any “outstanding” ballots - and fill them out for the Democrat.

Also, no ID to vote so illegals can participate as well, and vote themselves more services and perks.