Ballot harvesting allows vote buying to occur. Those paying for the votes can not only be shown how the voter voted, but with harvesting, they can be assured that the vote is indeed turned in to be counted. Will the news media now call this Democrat an election...
How often is someone caught on film filling in someone else's ballot? This illustrates how difficult it can be to catch this type of vote fraud. An Arizona Democrat, Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the border town...
Hopefully, only non-citizens have a non-citizen driver's license, but given that "Colorado does not verify citizenship," it appears to be an honor system. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office mailed postcards to roughly 30,000 non-citizens living in the state...
This case shows one of the dangers of absentee ballots. . Jason Schofield, 42, of Troy, New York, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart on an indictment charging him with unlawfully using the names and dates of birth of voters to fraudulently...
Dr. John Lott and Stephen M. Smith have a new op-ed on vote fraud at the Washington Times. . Former Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers (D-PA) was sentenced to 30 months in prison last week for vote fraud. His scheme involved bribery, falsification of voting records,...
It is difficult to catch these crimes as both the vote buyer and the person accepting the bribes have incentives to hide the crime, but they still occur. This verifies why our research comparing the number of ballots cast with the number of people listed as voting is...
“One of the most basic ways to ensure election transparency is to verify if the number of votes counted equals the number of people listed as voting,” said a new report from Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.“Of the 100 total counties, only six...
Dr. John Lott has a piece with Steve Smith from the America First Policy Institute about our research on counties and states inability to measure the gap between the number of voters with the number of ballots cast in elections. The research on which it is based is...
The paper is available to be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4205992. Our popular write-up on this is available here. Abstract We had a simple goal: match the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. After elections, concerns are raised...
A new Rasmussen Reports Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters conducted on August 17-18, 2022, shows that Americans are very concerned about violent crime, with 60% very concerned and 15% somewhat concerned. Only 22% are not concerned, and 2% are not sure. The agreement...
Dr. John Lott has a piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the false claims made by Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman. . Last week, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Democrat John Fetterman said that requiring a voter I.D. is “insidious and...
Auditors in Arizona found nearly 50,000 ballots deemed “questionable.” A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 56% of Likely U.S. voters believe every state should require that ballots be available immediately after elections for...