Posted on 04/09/2020 7:42:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With concerns mounting over how the country can conduct elections during a pandemic and Democrats pressing for alternatives to in-person voting, President Donald Trump has begun pushing a false argument that has circulated among conservatives for years - that voting by mail is a recipe for fraud.
“Mail ballots, they cheat,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases. They have to vote. They should have voter ID, by the way.”
Studies have shown that all forms of voting fraud are extremely rare in the United States. A national study in 2016 found few credible allegations of fraudulent voting. A panel that Trump charged with investigating election corruption found no real evidence of fraud before he disbanded it in 2018.
Even so, experts say that the mail voting system is more vulnerable to fraud than voting in person.
“What we know can be boiled down to this: Voting fraud in the United States is rare; less rare is fraud using mail ballots,” said Charles Stewart III of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stewart pointed to several documented voting fraud cases of recent decades involving mail or absentee ballots, most recently the race in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District in 2018, when an operative who rounded up absentee ballots for the Republican candidate, Mark Harris, was charged with election fraud. The practice is known as ballot harvesting.
“They’re stories; they’re dramatic; they are rare,” said Stewart, a professor of political science who studies the machinations of voting.
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Because the states with suspected vote fraud refused to cooperate with the panel. Wonder why?
The person pushing this in this article is a co-conspirator in a mass vote fraud scheme.
While the commission was disbanded, I recall that the effort was moved to the DHS. Usually when one avenue is closed to Trump, he finds another way. Plus, he uses distraction to get the media/dems to look "over there" while he gets stuff done somewhere else. Anyway, I'll try to find some news of the vote fraud investigation moving to the DHS.
DHS to Continue to Look Into Voter Fraud
House Dems ask DHS for details of voter fraud investigation takeover
Thanks
CO went all mail in ballots. Coincidentally, democRats have taken a stronger hold ever since.
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