Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The truth behind Trump’s latest ‘rigged election’ fears

"Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day," Republican nominee Donald Trump tweeted this morning.

"Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!" There's an awful lot to unpack here. The obvious point is that no, there is no "large scale voter fraud" happening. One of the most comprehensive investigations into voter impersonation found only 31 possibly fraudulent ballots out of over 1 billion votes cast between 2000 and 2014.

 A bevy of investigations over the years, from media outlets, academics, the courts and various government agencies have similarly found that voter fraud is so rare as to be non-existent....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/17/the-truth-behind-trumps-latest-rigged-election-fears/?tid=pm_business_pop_b


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