See Keillar's thread responding to Trump admin official who insisted GOP isn't engaging in #VoterSuppression, but responding to widespread #VoterFraud.
It's more likely someone will be struck by lightning than vote fraudulently. /Thread brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
.@BrennanCenter reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for fraud & found #VoterFraud by impersonation rates of between 0.0003% & 0.0025%. When authorities investigate reports of voter impersonation, they typically find clerical errors or bad data matching.
There were 4 cases of #VoterFraud in the 2016 US elections. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
Out of 1 billion US votes cast between 2000-14, there were 31 allegations of voter impersonation. That's 31 allegations, not prosecutions or convictions. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
When #Republican politicians called for #VoterID to combat what they saw as widespread #VoterFraud in #Arizona, #Ohio, #Georgia, #Texas, & #Kansas, reporters investigated.
#ZERO: There were 0 prosecutions in those 5 states for voter fraud between 2012-16. votingwars.news21.com/voter-fraud-is…
In 2016, US District court judge struck down parts of #Wisconsin's #VoterID law after reviewing the record & finding “utterly no evidence” that voter impersonation is an issue. wpr.org/judge-finds-pa…
“The #Wisconsin experience demonstrates that a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement, which undermine rather than enhance confidence in elections, particularly in minority communities,” Peterson wrote in his 2016 ruling.
US Justice Dept unit examined the '02 & '04 elections & found 0.00000013% of ballots cast were fraudulent. nytimes.com/2007/04/12/was…
Charges were dismissed against 9 #Florida voters who were accused of committing #AbsenteeBallot fraud. Reporters investigating the story reached the conclusion reached by everyone who's studied the issue: voters don't cast ballots fraudulently. tampabay.com/news/politics/…
"There is a long history in this country of racially
suppressive voting measures ... put in place under the
guise of stopping #VoterFraud that wasn't actually occurring in the 1st place." brennancenter.org/sites/default/…
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