How we know voter fraud is very rare in U.S. elections

“Research has been consistent over time that voter fraud is infinitesimally rare and almost never occurs on a scale that would affect an election outcome,” said Alice Clapman, senior counsel for ... Read More

Fact-checking Trump’s false claims about voter fraud and ‘rigged’ elections

Former President Donald Trump’s election-year message to his supporters is clear and often repeated: If Democrats win the November election, blame voter fraud. Read More

Trump’s election lies are messing up Republicans’ multi-million dollar mail-in voting campaigns

Ex-president has called mail-in voting ‘corrupt’ and claimed votes are changed at will — but his campaign recognizes that it can’t win without it ... Read More

Yes, voter fraud happens. But it’s rare and election offices have safeguards to catch it

Voter fraud does happen occasionally. And when it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. Fraud also gets caught, and people are prosecuted. Read More

Driven by Republicans, most Americans are concerned about fraud in the 2024 election

Almost 6-in-10 Americans say they’re concerned or very concerned that there will be voter fraud this election, a number that experts say is driven in large part by Donald Trump’s continued false ... Read More

Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump's false narrative on election fraud

Donald Trump this week falsely accused Democrats of cheating their way to a win in November, using a bipartisan 1986 act to claim without evidence that anyone overseas can get a ballot emailed to them ... Read More

How Republicans Are Waging an All-Out Assault on the Election System: “The Whole Thing Can Fall Apart”

Donald Trump’s lies about his 2020 election ... sort of strategic focus is primarily on the lie of voter fraud and elections.” The American election process has thus far withstood the attacks ... Read More

Battleground-district poll shows Trump’s path to victory — but problems for down-ballot Republicans

Not even 1 percentage point separates Kamala Harris (48%) and Donald Trump (47.3%) in head-to-head polling of 1,503 likely general-election ... down-ballot Republicans can weather September’s ... Read More

Why Trump’s election fraud falsehoods might cost the GOP the House

And if the speaker cannot beat a deadline of October 1 to fund federal operations, the government could partially shut down ... Trump’s voter fraud claims – both after the 2020 election ... Read More

14% of Republicans would 'take action to overturn' the election if Trump loses, study finds

The poll was conducted ... the presidential election results if their candidate loses. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. Only 29% of Republicans said that the ... Read More

Why Trump’s election fraud falsehoods might cost the GOP the House

Donald Trump’s obsession with election fraud that doesn’t exist in any ... especially if he hopes to cling to his job if Republicans succeed in holding the House in November. Read More