Mail-in voting does not cause mass voter fraud; a thread

According to an analysis of commission documents by AP, the Trump administration’s own voting integrity commission uncovered “no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud.”

“According to top election officials and research on the subject, Incidents of voter fraud are ‘very very low’” - Fox 5 NY

“According to top election officials and research on the subject, Incidents of voter fraud are ‘very very low’” - Fox 5 NY

-“It’s infinitesimal. People have studied this. There’s been litigation over this. Commissions have been established on this.” - Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the Federal Election Commission

-A study by Dartmouth University found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election

-A report by the Brennan Center for Justice (nonpartisan law and policy institute) reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003% and 0.0025%; the report concluded that it is more likely that an American “will be

struck by lightning than that they will impersonate another voter”

-The Conservative Heritage Foundation, which maintains a database on election fraud, could only find 143 criminal convictions of mail-in voter fraud out of 250 million mail-in votes cast over the past 20 years (a rate of 0.00006%)

-“The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there’s no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents — by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged.” - Benjamin L. Ginsberg, who served as national council to the Bush/Cheney

presidential campaign, co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and has practiced election law for 38 years.

-AP reported in 2016 in Oregon, suspected mail-in voter fraud percentage was 0.002% (54 ballots out of over 2 million)

-Twitter fact-checked a Trump tweet claiming mail-in voting would lead to mass fraud

-According to an analysis of commission documents by AP, the Trump administration’s voting integrity commission uncovered “no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud.”

-“The election is going to be fine. Many parts of our country vote by mail; Oregon, Washington, and Colorado have voted by mail for years” - Mitch McConnell, 8/19/20

-“Washington has not seen any kind of rampant fraud in my 27 years of doing elections” - Kim Wyman, Republican Secretary of State in Washington state

-“Imagine risking going to jail for five years in order to change one vote, to go in and vote twice or fill out an absentee ballot for your spouse or your parent who has passed away and risk five years of jail time for that. It would make no sense. It’s completely irrational as a

crime, because you get very little benefit. You’re probably not going to change the results of the election with that extra one vote, and you’re risking going to jail or incurring substantial fines — so people don’t do it” - Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the FEC

there is bipartisan support to prove that absolutely there is absolutely ZERO evidence that mail-in voting causes mass voter fraud. i felt a very serious need to point this out.

however, Trump did encourage his supporters to commit voter fraud.

“Trump Again Suggests North Carolinians Try To Vote Twice, Whicu Is A Felony” - Forbes Magazine, among many others