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...
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...