Questions tagged [election-fraud]
For violations of voting or voting registration laws.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...