Voter Fraud?—Invented
Donald Trump is saying that the November 3 election will be “the greatest scam in the history of politics.” Is it true?
No, it’s just one more lie. When the conservative Heritage Foundation conducted a study of voter fraud cases across the country going back to the 1970s, they turned up a rate of less than 1 vote in 740,000—or about 0.0001%.
“We have all kinds of safeguards in place,” said Rick Hasen, an election-law scholar and the author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust and the Threat to American Democracy “to make sure that people are not voting multiple times, that ballot boxes are not being stuffed, that foreign countries are not mailing in thousands of ballots.”
There does remain one singular threat to the integrity of our votes: Donald Trump himself. Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer if power if he loses the election. The “greatest scam in the history of politics” would be for Trump to use his bogus claims of fraud as an excuse to invalidate the results of a national election. If we take Trump at his word, our democracy is in great peril.
Vote. Make your voice heard.