What tools would be necessary to determine whether there was substantial voter fraud in our elections? I don’t believe that we have the tools at this point.
There are all sorts of different kinds of vote fraud. There are votes cast by people who are ineligible or don’t exist at all. There are votes cast in multiple jurisdictions by the same eligible person. There are votes cast in the name of someone who is eligible to vote by someone other than the voter.
Back when I was an election judge there were many people still on the voter rolls that we knew to be either dead or no longer living in the ward. We dutifully reported their names and addresses to the Board of Elections as we were supposed to. Nothing ever was done about it.
To identify fraud wouldn’t you need a national biometric ID? That would enable you to determine if the voter were the same individual as the one registered to vote, if the voter were eligible, and if the voter were eligible in the jurisdiction in which he or she was voting.
I think that there is unquestionably some level of vote fraud. Without better tools I don’t see any way we could determine whether you’d measure the numbers of fraudulent votes in the hundreds, the thousands, or the millions.
Judging by this partial list from the Washington Times, it’s pretty clear there are few actual tools. Not mentioned is Florida, which does not participate in the crosscheck system. Pretty much everyone here in Florida believes a non-trivial number of snow-birds also vote here, but there’s no way to know for sure. New organizations over the years have done matching of voter rolls and the potential numbers are in the tens-of-thousands tens-of-thousands..
Judging by this partial list from the Washington Times, it’s pretty clear there are few actual tools.
Not mentioned is Florida, which does not participate in the crosscheck system. Pretty much everyone here in Florida believes a non-trivial number of snow-birds also vote here through absentee ballot fraud, but there’s no way to know for sure. News organizations over the years have done matching of voter rolls and the potential numbers are in the tens-of-thousands..
There is a lot of voter fraud that is easy to find, but it is in the absentee/can’t make it the polls ballots. Most dead people voting results from ballots being sent to the home of the dead person. The surviving spouse votes the way they think the deceased would have wanted.
Steve