Lemme
Legacy Member
Five-seveN zei:
Denk jij dat er geen enkel systeem is om voter fraud tegen te gaan?
The Brennan Center’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most
reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or
bad data matching practices. The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for
voter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Given this tiny
incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American
“will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.”
A study published by a Columbia University political scientist tracked incidence rates for voter
fraud for two years, and found that the rare fraud that was reported generally could be traced to
“false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error.”
A 2017 analysis published in The Washington Post concluded that there is no evidence to support
Trump’s claim that Massachusetts residents were bused into New Hampshire to vote.
A comprehensive 2014 study published in The Washington Post found 31 credible instances of
impersonation fraud from 2000 to 2014, out of more than 1 billion ballots cast. Even this tiny
number is likely inflated, as the study’s author counted not just prosecutions or convictions, but
any and all credible claims.
Two studies done at Arizona State University, one in 2012 and another in 2016, found similarly
negligible rates of impersonation fraud. The project found 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud
nationwide from 2000-2012. The follow-up study, which looked for fraud specifically in states
where politicians have argued that fraud is a pernicious problem, found zero successful
prosecutions for impersonation fraud in five states from 2012-2016.
A review of the 2016 election found four documented cases of voter fraud.
Research into the 2016 election found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
A 2016 working paper concluded that the upper limit on double voting in the 2012 election was
0.02%. The paper noted that the incident rate was likely much lower, given audits conducted by
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the researchers showed that “many, if not all, of these apparent double votes could be a result of
measurement error.”
A 2014 paper concluded that “the likely percent of non-citizen voters in recent US elections is 0.”
A 2014 nationwide study found “no evidence of widespread impersonation fraud” in the 2012
election.
A 2014 study that examined impersonation fraud both at the polls and by mail ballot found zero
instances in the jurisdictions studied.
A 2014 study by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, which reflected a literature
review of the existing research on voter fraud, noted that the studies consistently found “few
instances of in-person voter fraud.”
While writing a 2012 book, a researcher went back 30 years to try to find an example of voter
impersonation fraud determining the outcome of an election, but was unable to find even one.
A 2012 study exhaustively pulled records from every state for all alleged election fraud, and found
the overall fraud rate to be “infinitesimal” and impersonation fraud by voters at the polls to be
the rarest fraud of all: only 10 cases alleged in 12 years. The same study found only 56 alleged
cases of non-citizen voting, in 12 years.
A 2012 assessment of Georgia’s 2006 election found “no evidence that election fraud was
committed under the auspices of deceased registrants.”
A 2011 study by the Republican National Lawyers Association found that, between 2000 and
2010, 21 states had 1 or 0 convictions for voter fraud or other kinds of voting irregularities.
A 2010 book cataloguing reported incidents of voter fraud concluded that nearly all allegations
turned out to be clerical errors or mistakes, not fraud.
A 2009 analysis examined 12 states and found that fraud by voters was “very rare,” and also
concluded that many of the cases that garnered media attention were ultimately unsubstantiated
upon further review.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a longtime proponent of voter suppression efforts,
argued before state lawmakers that his office needed special power to prosecute voter fraud,
because he knew of 100 such cases in his state. After being granted these powers, he has brought
six such cases, of which only four have been successful. The secretary has also testified about his
review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states, which yielded 14 instances of fraud referred for
prosecution, which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate.
A specialized United States Department of Justice unit formed with the goal of finding instances
of federal election fraud examined the 2002 and 2004 federal elections, and were able to prove
that 0.00000013 percent of ballots cast were fraudulent. There was no evidence that any of these
incidents involved in-person impersonation fraud. Over a five year period, they found “no
concerted effort to tilt the election.”
An investigation in Colorado, in which the Secretary of State alleged 100 cases of voter fraud,
yielded one conviction.
In Iowa, a multi-year investigation into fraud led to just 27 prosecutions out of 1.6 million ballots
cast. In 2014 the state issued a report on the investigation citing only six prosecutions.
Maar goed, jij weet het beter dan al deze onderzoeken.
Moeten we dan trouwens niet zwaar beginnen panikeren over onze verkiezingen hier in België? Want hoe ga je ooit bewijzen dat hier ook niet massaal wordt vals gespeeld? Hoe weet jij dat jouw stem hier wel juist geteld wordt? Zouden er hier dan ook systemen zijn om dit tegen te gaan?
. Je moet al actief ronselen bij voorkeur in een swing state, liefst nog in bepaalde county's waar je dan nog moet mensen contacteren om kandidaten moet vinden. Lijkt mij vrij onmogelijk zonder op te vallen.
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