The closing weeks of the presidential election have been full of disinformation. Some of it--like Haitian immigrants stealing cats and eating them, for instance--is downright false. But some of it starts with a kernel of truth and either misrepresents the facts, blows small problems into huge ones, or ignores the all-important role of context in interpreting what happened. Nowhere is this more evident than in persistent claims, coming from Donald Trump and his allies, that the 2024 election will be rife with cheating on the part of the Democrats.
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- The closing weeks of the presidential election have been full of disinformation. 1
- Some of itlike Haitian immigrants stealing cats and eating them for instance 1
- Nowhere is this more evident than in coming from Donald 1
- Trump and his allies that the 2024 election will be rife with cheating on the 1
- But facts still matter and interestingly enough the a 1
- 2025 has detailed evidence that bears on the claim that there is widespread 1
- Scrolling through the Heritage database at first glance offers the impression 1
- Heritage staff had to go back decades in time where there have been 1
- To illustrate just how miniscule fraud is in American elections we took 1
- Heritageʼs own data to construct the following table of voter fraud in federal 1
- Heritage Foundation 1
- COMMENTARY 1
- Elaine Kamarck 1
- October 28 2024 1
- In the highly contested state of Pennsylvania Heritage data goes back 30 years and covers 32 elections with over 100 million votes cast and found only 39 cases of voter fraud. 1
- The percentage of fraudulent votes in Arizona over the last 25 years of elections was a minuscule .0000845 and no election outcome in the U.S. has ever been altered by ballot fraud. 1
- In an effort to pre-bunk the inevitable accusations of fraud election officials around the country are working hard to inform voters on how voting actually works. 1
- State 2
- Heritage Foundation number of years analyzed 2
- Number 2
- Total 2
- Number 2
- Arizona 25 2
- Georgia 27 2
- Michigan 2
- 17 first case in 2007 about 2005 election 2
- Nevada 13 2
- North Carolina 38 2
- Pennsylvania 30 2
- Wisconsin 20 2
- Looking at the seven closest states we find for instance that in Arizona 2
- Heritage had to go back 25 years over which there were 36 elections held 2
- 32 elections with over 100 million votes cast and found only 39 cases of voter 2
- Voter fraud is serious which is why there are many protections built into the 2
- Andin one of the least well-known aspects of the vote countDemocrats 2
- Republicans have lawyers who are really dumb or just lazy and neither is the 2
- So as Darrell West and I argue in our Brookings Press book 2
- Lies That Kill A 2
- Citizenʼs Guide to Disinformation 2
- The bottom linewhether itʼs vote fraud or government fraudfacts matter 3
- AUTHOR 3
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