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...
A July 5th national telephone and online survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters by Rasmussen Reports and The National Pulse finds large percentages of all types of Americans believe that mail-in voting will lead to more cheating in elections. A smaller number, but still...
Just the News has put together an extensive list of voting illegalities and irregularities during the 2020 general election. This fits in with our research on excess votes during the 2020 election (available here). While this isn't our list, we feel that it is...
KGVO-AM radio in Missoula had this story. . The Missoula County Election Integrity Project and John Lott, Ph.D. have filed a lawsuit in Missoula District Court against the Missoula County Elections Office and Bradley Seaman in his official capacity as Elections...
Transparency in elections is important. No one alleges that vote fraud altered any election results in Montana in 2020. But two recounts of the envelopes used in the 2020 vote in Missoula County came up with two very different results. Last January 4, a recount of the...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist about the problems with voting even in Montana. UPDATE: Even two days after the article was posted it was still the third most read article on The Federalist website. If we are going to avoid the type of debate that...