Automatic Voter Registration Leads to Inaccuracies
States need to clean up, not mess up, their voter rolls. In 2018, California began implementing a new “motor voter” law intended to automatically register to vote any state resident who visited the Department of Motor Vehicles. The process was executed with the level of competence many have come to expect from the DMV: 23,000 […]
Both Sides Commit Voter Fraud
Voter fraud isn’t unique to the left or the right. In 2018, the North Carolina Ninth Congressional District race was invalidated after news reports broke that Republican political operatives had worked systematically to swing the outcome of the election through fraud. In 2019, a Mexican citizen who had stolen the identity of an American citizen, […]
A Congressional Race Was Thrown Out Because of Fraud
Vote harvesting opened the door for political operatives to try to steal an election. Wide scale voter fraud forced officials to throw out the results of the 2018 North Carolina Ninth Congressional District race. Republican operative Leslie Dowless and several cronies illegally harvested, altered, or destroyed hundreds of ballots in a scheme to fix the […]
Voter ID Laws Don’t Depress Turnout
Asking for ID doesn’t stop people from voting. Being asked for I.D. is a routine fact of life for nearly everyone. Americans understand why they need a photo ID when they board an airplane, order a drink at a bar, buy certain cold medications, or drive a car. It isn’t to prevent lawful conduct; it’s […]
One Out of Eight Voter Registrations Are Wrong
State voter rolls languish with millions of inaccurate entries. In 2012, the Pew Center on the States released an alarming report: as many as 24 million voter registrations in the United States—roughly one out of eight—were inaccurate or outdated. Worse, registrations for nearly two million deceased individuals remained on the rolls, and 2.75 million voters […]
A Small Number of Votes Can Swing Elections
It doesn’t take millions of votes for fraud to be significant. We live in an era of tight elections. Every race, from local school board member to president of the United States, can be decided by margins that are razor-thin. Here are just a few recent examples of significant cases in which a few votes […]
1259 Proven Instances of Voter Fraud—And Counting
Voter fraud is real. It’s time to take it seriously. If you don’t believe that election fraud is real, you should take a look at The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. This one-of-a-kind research tool tracks a sampling of proven instances of voter fraud from virtually every state in the nation. At present, the Heritage database […]