Our earlier research in August showed how the vast majority European and developed countries ban absentee ballots for citizens living in their country. While Dr. Lott is no longer with the CPRC, he has released new research while he is at the US Department of Justice...
A write-in candidate for mayor in Hawthorne, California was part of a scam to submit over 8,000 voter registration form for homeless people. One wonders if this case weren't done for a write-in candidate whether it would have drawn the same attention. A man who tried...
We have been collecting cases on vote fraud (see an earlier post here) and we have done extensive research on voting rules in other countries (showing that most countries ban absentee ballots because of concern over vote fraud). But with the apparent vote fraud...
The first presidential debate between President Trump versus Joe Biden rehashed a lot of false claims about vote fraud. Here is Dr. John Lott's piece at Real Clear Politics about some of the false claims made by Joe Biden and Chris Wallace during the debate. Neither...
We have previously posted examples of vote fraud with mail-in ballots and we have discussed how the vast majority of other countries ban mail-in voting. But there are other problems with mail-in ballots. In New York City a large percentage of ballots were invalidated,...
Fox News has a news story on our new research. A new report highlights the restrictive laws most European countries and other developed areas throughout the world have in regards to mail-in voting, contrasting highly permissive U.S. regulations, as the...
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Newsweek on the concerns over vote fraud with mail-in ballots. This piece is based upon our research on voting rules around the world available here. Thirty-seven states have changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in...
Given all the concern about vote fraud, the CPRC investigated how other countries have handled the process. The paper is available for download here. Here is the abstract: Thirty-seven states have so far changed their mail-in voting procedures this year in response to...
The vast majority of Europe and developed countries ban absentee ballots, let alone the type of universal mail-in voting that is being demanded these days (our research is available here). There are problems with both vote buying and vote fraud. Vote buying cases are...
Over three elections, a election judge in Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to standing in an election booth and voting as fast as he could over and over again. Domenick J. DeMuro faces up to 15 years in federal prison for this fraud. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: A...
Dr. John Lott had a new piece at Real Clear Politics on the continued push for mail-in ballots because of the Coronavirus “No Californian should be forced to risk their health in order to exercise their right to vote,” warns California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Last Friday,...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. ‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an...