Questions tagged [election-fraud]
For violations of voting or voting registration laws.
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If instances of electoral fraud were found, or suspected, in a presidential election, what would be the constitutional procedure for resolution?
The Trump administration seemed to be of the view that if they could show that a state had suffered electoral fraud, the Vice President or the Attorney General could simply demand that those states ...
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What's the investigative process for suspicions of fraudulent votes by proxy at the polling station level in the Netherlands?
According to a recent article by Dutch public broadcaster NOS, two mayors have reported suspicions of election fraud because of the high percentage of votes by proxy in certain polling stations. The ...
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Evidence of widespread voter fraud stemming from absentee ballots
This article makes the claim that voter fraud stemming from absentee ballots could have had a major impact on the recent California recall election. Is there any evidence from this election or others ...
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Can the effect of US voter ID and registration laws on fraud be compared state-to-state?
From what an outsider can understand of the contentious voter id and registration debates in the USA these are the arguments:
Democrats: "Voter ID and registration laws are just another tool to ...
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If I do not have an ID, how can Michigan check that I did not attempt to vote multiple times at different locations?
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In Michigan, if someone did not bring their photo ID with them, they are free to sign an affidavit as state below on the Michigan Secretary of State website:
Voting Without Photo ID
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What can be some issues with this alternate procedure for recalling public officials? [closed]
There are many democratic procedures like recall elections which don’t need to take place within a fixed period of time, i.e. they can be continuously held until the replacement candidate gets a ...
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Is it possible to fraudulently elect one federal office without throwing all elections on the same ballot into question?
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There is no shortage of 2020 Election Fraud conspiracy theories in the United States, and there was no shortage of attempts to overturn the final result of the Presidential Election. None ...
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What happens if election fraud is found after a president is elected? [duplicate]
A proportion of Donald Trump's supporters believe that the presidential election that has recently led to Joe Biden being sworn in was fraudulent. As I recall, numerous states, such as Arizona, are ...
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How strong is the association between the complexity of the electoral process and beliefs in voting fraud?
It's been suggested in a fairly upvoted answer to a related question that the complexity of the electoral/voting process is a main driver in beliefs in voting fraud, at least in developed countries.
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Are there research results on what makes people in established democracies believe in election fraud?
One might assume that ballots and vote counts come close to an absolute truth, that large-scale election fraud is nearly impossible in stable and wealthy democratic countries: Public observers and ...
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Who are the two dead Georgia voters who voted? [closed]
It was clear from the call that Trump has surrounded himself with aides who have fed his false perceptions that the election was stolen. When he claimed that more than 5,000 ballots were cast in ...
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Was there ever an election in the US that was overturned by the courts due to fraud?
Was there ever an election in the US (state or federal-level) whose result was overturned by the courts due to vote fraud?
If so, what was the most recent such instance?
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Does Trump claim that election irregularities only affected the Presidential election?
Donald Trump has been contesting the results of the 2020 Presidential election, alleging voter fraud, improper counting, and other irregularities. A number of recounts have been done, although none ...
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Has Trump ever explained how he won the allegedly rigged 2016 elections?
As Trump keeps alleging fraud in the 2020 elections, I'm wondering if he has ever explained how he won the 2016 elections in spite of alleged fraud. He said then too that the elections were rigged, ...
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Trump's lawyer, Sidney Powell, is making some pretty extraordinary claims of electoral fraud. What is her reputation in the legal community? [closed]
Trump's lawyer, Sidney Powell, is making some pretty wild claims about alleging massive electoral fraud in the 2020 election. What she's alleging would be (if true) the biggest scandal since the 1876 ...
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Wouldn't it be beneficial for Democrats to support a bipartisan investigation into voter fraud allegations?
Obviously there's a big divide between the opinion that no voter fraud happened in the 2020 Presidential Election, and that such widespread voter fraud happened in enough states so as to swing the ...
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Are unauthorized ballot boxes a new and solely American method of election fraud?
Recently there was a case of Republican Party of the US illegally placing unauthorized ballot drop-boxes, to harvest legitimate ballots and presumably perform some illegal activity with them. This was ...
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Legal challenges to elections - US versus other countries
This article in The Atlantic discusses the upcoming US elections. It seems to suggest that legions of party-funded lawyers are available to be deployed in the aftermath of an election to seek out and ...
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Are there any specific reasons why President Trump has suggested that his supporters illegally vote twice in North Carolina?
Recently, the current United States President suggested that people in North Carolina vote twice in the upcoming election: once by postal vote and once in person. Apparently there are measures in ...
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What happens if not all ballots cast by mail arrive in time to be counted for the November elections?
I know this is a worst-case scenario, but the fact is that these three issues will happen concurrently during election season:
Louis Dejoy, the new postmaster general and a major donor of Trump, has ...
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What fact-based arguments exist that mail-in voting would lead to significantly higher instances of US voter fraud?
There seems to be a consensus among prominent news sources that mail-in voting does not significantly increase the likelihood of fraud.
The BBC:
"A voter fraud database collated by Arizona State ...
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Can the Trump Campaign use the voter data the Trump Administration received in 2017?
In 2017 the Trump Administration requested and received 2016 voting data from the states. In some states this data can be used to determine how a person voted based on a code that was entered into the ...
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Is there a higher incidence of electoral fraud in states that use all-mail voting?
Currently Oregon, Washington and Colorado use all-mail voting, with Hawaii set to join them in 2020. Is there a higher incidence of election fraud in these States compared to US States that lack no-...
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Double voting in the UK
In the UK you are allowed to be registered to vote in two constituencies (usually your home address and a student house) but are only allowed to vote in one of these locations.
In my experience, when ...
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What is the difference between nullifying your vote and not going to vote at all?
When there are multiple parties to vote with (let's say A, and B), what difference does it make when one nullifies their vote compared with another person that does not vote at all?
I heard some ...
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Have people been prosecuted or fined for multiple cross-countries voting in EU elections?
Per a recent question here, an EU citizen may only cast one vote in the EU elections, even if citizen of multiple EU countries.
I imagine however that unlike national elections, this kind of multiple-...
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Did Modi violate the Anti-Defection Law?
The Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi has said that he is in touch with 40 lawmakers belonging to Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) and that they will quit the party once the LS elections are over ...
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Lying in election affidavits
The former education minister of India, Smriti Irani has been caught lying in her previous election affidavits about her educational qualifications. She had at times, claimed to be a Yale graduate, a ...
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The US Voting System Vulnerabilities, Anti-Fraud, and citizen Assurance of Accuracy
As a US citizen that votes and expects my vote and every other citizen's to be counted with accuracy, it is rather disturbing when I hear about news such as the strongly suspected voter fraud/cheating ...
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How does the European Union ensure the correctness of elections with member countries?
During the last referendum in Romania, the existing voting monitoring system did not work, creating doubt about the correctness of voting as this system allowed multiple voting detection:
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How do we know U.S. elections are free and fair with accurate counting of the popular votes?
People speculate that votes are not properly counted -- even in the U.S. Have Gallup polls or well-respected independent entities tried to confirm U.S. election outcomes?
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What is the benefit of electronic voting machines (as opposed to paper ballots)?
Quite a few countries (notably the USA) use electronic voting machines for casting ballots during elections.
Coming from Germany, where electronic voting machines are not used, I wonder why they are ...
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What are some horror stories of electoral fraud happening due to electronic voting in otherwise established democracies?
The media is replete with stories of vulnerabilities [real or potential] having been discovered [or likely to exist] in electronic voting machines. What I want to ask here is: what are some of the ...
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Given Putin's widespread support, why cheat in elections?
It's generally agreed that there was cheating in the Russian presidential elections, with the aim of increasing the number of votes for Vladimir Putin. There were widespread irregularities, and in ...
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Did Erdoǧan cheat in the 2018 election?
Did Erdoǧan cheat in the 2018 Turkish election?
Cheating means, for example:
Gerrymandering
Buying/bribing/scaring voters
Jailing/scaring/assassinating candidates
Interrupting/blocking candidates ...
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Are US politicians allowed to give money to voters?
More specifically, is it voter fraud if a politician does something to help voters? For example, if a politician pays to build a library, or fund-raises for a charity that supports a poor community of ...
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Has any US state ever conducted a wide scale verification of registered voters to check the percentage of non-US citizens on the electoral rolls?
Given how easy it is to register to vote in the US as a non-US citizen, it seems plausible that a non-zero number of such persons are on the electoral rolls in the US. There are statistics which show ...
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What could be done to US states that openly allow non-citizens to vote?
I saw this question about what states that don't use voter ID do to ensure non-citizens don't vote, and the answer seems to be little, if anything. Given the current political climate (where some ...
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Which EU countries prohibit electoral riggers for holding leadership positions (political and/or within public administration)?
At the end of February 2018, Romanian General Prosecutor talked about the so called Troesmis Constitution (source in Romanian, approximate translation below):
He will not become a dignitary, a duke,...
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Can non-US citizens illegally vote in the presidential election in California?
Without respect to how many such cases have happened in the past, is it possible for illegal immigrants or legal residents who aren't citizens to vote in the presidential election in California?
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Is there less risk that my vote will be tampered with if I vote by mail/absentee?
I've seen news articles that there was electronic tampering in the last US national election[1][2]. Some articles say the registration systems were tampered with--so people were marked as not ...
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What happens if any of Jill Stein's recounts find evidence of major issues and it's impossible to say who won a state?
As is widely reported now, Jill Stein's campaign is requesting recounts in two states (and likely soon a third). Ideally, the recounts will closely (or exactly) match the reported totals, and the ...
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How are voting results from local precincts tabulated and passed to the news media?
The focus of vote recounts in the news media seems to be largely on fidelity of voting machines, missing or tampered ballots, and other irregularities associated with precinct level events. Yet, ...
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Why don't ALL voting machines get fed a test batch of ballots before the election to prevent tampering/hacking?
... run a test batch of ballots through it (voting machine)
(Source: step 6.2 of Wisconsin's official vote recount manual, courtesy of Bobson's answer here).
As a software developer, this seems ...
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Voter registration fraud: how is citizenship checked?
This question is motivated by the recent discussions about "voter fraud" and "rigged election" in the media. I am not asking about the extent of actual voter fraud, but about how ...
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