Dr. John Lott has another piece up at Townhall. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, among voters who used absentee or mail-in ballots in November 2020, eight percent said they were paid or rewarded for voting. Both Biden and Trump voters claim they got paid for...
According to PEW Research 46% of American voters in November 2020 voted by absentee or mail-in ballots (58% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans). A new Rasmussen survey has 30% of American voters claiming they voted by absentee or mail-in ballots in that election (36%...
We thought that there weren't any concerns about unattended ballot boxes. A state judge has taken the unusual step of ordering a new Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city to be held after the Nov. 7 general election is completed. The decision comes...
According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll from June 26th to 27th, a majority of Democrats (55%-to-43%), Republicans (80%-to-18%), and Independents (64%-to-33%) think that the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be affected by cheating. Young people think...
Our newest research paper is available here. Because of our earlier work on this topic, the Ohio legislature on June 30th passed the Data Analysis Transparency Archive bill to ensure that the number of voters who voted can be matched with the number of ballots cast. ....
Here is an example of a politician who wanted to win election just too much. . In an executive order, the Republican governor [Ron DeSantis] said Mr. DeFillipo “is prohibited from performing any official act, duty, or function of public office; from receiving any pay...
When people were using Motor Voter they were asked if the applicant is a U.S. citizen, and some foreign nationals clearly checked the "NO," but they were registered anyway. However, starting in 2018, Illinois stopped asking people that question. Unfortunately, the...
There is a reason that secret ballots were adopted precisely to prevent voters being pressured to vote a particular way. While this focuses on pressuring voters to support this candidate, there is also the possibility of buying votes. The mail-in voting and vote...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on vote fraud issues involving mail-in ballots. . Watching the news, you’d be led to believe that vote fraud doesn’t exist in the United States. Since the election on November 8, news article after news article has...
This article from Adam Liptak in the New York Times from 2012 could have been written by the Crime Prevention Research Center (emphasis added). You won't find an article like that now in the New York Times. But this month they argue that claims of vote fraud are...
Before the election, at the end of September, likely voters by a 62%-to-36% margin thought that preventing cheating in elections was more important than making voting easier for everybody. A new Rasmussen Reports Survey shows voters holding the same views, though not...
A Rasmussen Reports Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters conducted on September 28-29, 2022, shows that Americans are very concerned about vote fraud. Surprisingly, given the fear that voter IDs other anti-fraud measures will prevent the poorest and least educated from...