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...
Dr. John Lott's research on vote fraud can be downloaded and read here. The data and the "do files" for STATA allow people to replicate and check all the results are available in these links. STATA data filesDo file for all the tables and other regressions.The data...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. This piece discusses his forthcoming journal piece in Public Choice that measures vote fraud in the November 2020 presidential election. By a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that “cheating affected the...
Vote harvesting may have been occurring on a large scale during the 2020 election. . . . The investigations are examining reports of payments to people who collected ballots, “mules” dropping multiple ballots at different drop boxes, coercion of voters at nursing...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters conducted from March 3rd to 6th found 52% of voters say that it is likely that "cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Forty percent (40%) of voters thought that was unlikely. It is...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely US voters shows that voters are overwhelmingly more concerned about preventing vote fraud than making voting easier and that they don't believe voter photo IDs discriminate against some voters. The margins in both cases...
The Texas Secretary of State has released the first stage of a four-county audit of the 2020 general election. The problems in these four counties weren't large enough by themselves to alter the outcome of any elections last year, but they raise concerns about whether...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on Democrat claims of voter suppression by Republicans. “Republicans … are trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their voices heard,” former President Obama warned while campaigning in the...
Marie Beren was involved in election counts since 1984. This appears to be something that was happening all across Philadelphia. The government claims that the consultant in question directed Beren to add fraudulent votes to candidates supported by the consultant. In...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that by a 66% to 28% margin likely voters believe that mail-in voting will lead to more vote fraud. Over 50% of whites, blacks, and others and all income groups believe that. Democrats, those who approve of Biden, and...