How common is voter fraud?

How common is voter fraud? Liberals go under the false statistics of "reported" voter fraud. They forget, however, that voter fraud is extremely easy to do and it is very hard for officials to catch them. In other words, the reported number is much smaller then it actually is. I was talking to one of my liberal teachers, he claimed only a few hundred (under 1,000) cases of voter fraud have occurred. He failed to mention, however, that all of the data on the subject is highly flawed. Most studies have low-balled the number, they always admit it is more likely then they can report as data is limited, and many middle of the road research groups have called for better data on the subject. One study finds 2.068 cases of voter fraud have occurred since the 2000 elections, but other academics rightly noted not all voter fraud accounts are caught. They don't always find the culprit, and no scientific method can measure for that [1]. So remember, we don't know how large the margins of errors are in these studies--probably a lot--meaning hundreds of thousands of cases are going unnoticed. So a reader might wonder, how many people do I think are committing voter fraud? To be simple: I don't know, but it is more common then the left makes it out to be. Recently a democrat has already admitted he has voted for the President 4 times [2]. Anther NY democrat was busted when he tried to vote twice [3]. Now, there have probably been Republican voter frauds, no doubt about it. But is is obvious one side does it more often. There are a few types of voter fraud. I will not name them all, but the two I see as most common. As stated, people trying to vote twice using another persons name or again in their own. The second, I like to call "I see dead people voting". Although the second is MUCH harder to catch, we can use a few proxies to estimate how often that occurs.

In Florida, 53,000 dead people are registered to vote. Fox News in just one country (Bucks County) found 500 cases of suspect voter fraud, CNN reported that in Philadelphia 1,500 ballots where considered tainted and another 8,000 where suspect. Voter fraud is a common problem and cannot be ignored [4]. NPR reports that 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote, and that 24 million people registered are invalid or inaccurate. NPR—with its liberal bias—said this doesn't means this has caused voter fraud, but admits it has left the system very vulnerable [5]. In South Carolina, though, we see many cases of the dead voting. Their AG reported that they have had 900 people dead people vote in recent elections [6].

Voter fraud is under reported, underestimated, and is a problem. I guarantee we will see reports of voter fraud from all sides. It is a problem, and it is happening. To end I will say this: 5,321 dead people have voted in North Carolina alone (this year!). 3,678 are democrats, 1,484 are republicans, and 15 are unaffiliated [7]. It is hard to imagine this problem isn't even larger in bigger states (like CA, TX, etc.) and even quite large in states like here in New Mexico (our voting system is a joke by the way). Stop ignoring the problem!




1. http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/counting-voter-fraud-1165/
2. http://nation.foxnews.com/voter-fraud/2012/11/05/democrat-admits-hes-voted-four-times-already
3. http://nation.foxnews.com/voter-fraud/2012/11/06/nc-dem-busted-trying-vote-twice
4. http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA636.html
5. http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote
6. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/south-carolina-attorney-general-we-know-for-a-fact-that-dead-people-are-voting-video/
7. http://www.carolinatransparency.com/votetracker/gen2012/age/112/