Just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election

[wvit1001]

There wasn't evidence of widespread voter fraud before the election. There isn't evidence of widespread voter fraud afterward, either. In fact, there's not evidence of even modest voter fraud.

We combed through the news-aggregation system Nexis to find demonstrated cases of absentee or in-person voter fraud — which is to say, examples of people getting caught casting a ballot that they shouldn't — during this election. This excludes examples of voter registration fraud — the filing of fraudulent voter registration information. Those aren't votes cast — and given that organizations often provide incentives for employees to register as many people as possible, registration fraud cases (while still rare) are more common.

Here's what we found:

Cases of voter fraud

A woman in Iowa who voted twice. Terri Lynn Rote had the enormous misfortune of bad timing. Right as the candidate she supported, Trump, was drawing attention to fraud cases, Rote decided to try to vote twice in Des Moines, and got caught. The case made national headlines simply by virtue of the fact that it happened when it did, and that she voted for who she voted for.

For what it's worth, she suggested that the fault lay with Trump. “The polls are rigged,” she said to a local radio station by way of explaining her multiple votes, echoing another of Trump's complaints.

A man in Texas who voted twice. Phillip Cook was arrested on Election Day after voting twice. He claimed to be an employee of Trump's campaign who was testing the security of the electoral system. He wasn't an employee of the campaign — and the polling location's security worked perfectly well, it seems.

A woman who cast a ballot for her dead husband. Audrey Cook is a Republican election judge in Illinois. She and her husband applied for absentee ballots because he was ill. He died before completing his, so she filled it out for him and sent it in. The ballot will not be counted.

A woman in Florida who marked absentee ballots. Gladys Coego was hired to open absentee ballots in Miami-Dade County. One of her co-workers noticed that she was going a step further, filling in the bubble for a mayoral candidate with a pen she had in her purse. She was caught in the act and arrested. There's no evidence she changed any presidential votes.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-000002-percent-of-all-the-ballots-cast-in-the-2016-election-were-fraudulent/?utm_term=.73029d53e8c5

[Jim]

 
How do you document Voter fraud if an illegal has fake ID and passes as a real voter?
 

[Mystic]

It's fascinating that they didn't find even one case of fraud for Hillary.

That only happens when you refuse to look, you don't find any.

[jst-the-fax]

Jim,
California issues illegal aliens drivers license and that coupled with a fake Social Security is all that is necessary for voter registration.  My bet is many Mexicans did that and voted in our election.   

[D2D]

You cannot find what you don't look for!

[wmdn_bs]

No wonder Trump won. The election was rigged in his favor.

[WWV10MHZ]

Jim......  vit runs away when unable to answer simple questions.

[Truman62]

And FAX has no FACTS of his wild hypothesis!
Why oh why would an illegal put their fake ID at risk to vote
for someone in California who was going to win California anyway?

[chuck_curtis]

This excludes examples of voter registration fraud — the filing of fraudulent voter registration information.

That excludes the vast majority of cases.

[jst-the-fax]

oh davik....they vote themselves money from your wallet. 

[keep-left]

And FAX has no FACTS of his wild hypothesis!
Why oh why would an illegal put their fake ID at risk to vote
for someone in California who was going to win California anyway?

Gee Davik! Didn't you know?

These are the SAME illegal immigrants that stole all the American jobs AND are all on welfare because they are too lazy to work!

[chuck_curtis]

Why oh why would an illegal put their fake ID at risk to vote

Not that he even has to use it to vote, but what better reason that to prevent his non-citizen, criminal arse from getting kicked out by Trump?