Widespread election fraud claims by Republicans don't match the evidence | Brookings
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Americans still believe voter fraud is rampant despite evidence running contrary.

We are less than one year away from Election Day and although there has been no new evidence or litigation regarding election fraud in the 2020 election, many people continue to believe that the 2020 election was flawed. In the summer, a poll by the Associated Press showed that 22% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats have high confidence in votes being counted accurately in 2024. A more recent Washington Post poll found that among New Hampshire Republicans, over 50% believe Biden’s win was fraudulent, including 85% of Trump supporters.

Chief among those who continue to believe that the 2020 election was fraudulent is the former president, Donald Trump, who can’t seem to stop talking about it. In one post, he goes after the Republican Party for not doing enough — “… the RNC, and Ronna McDaniel, must spend their time working on this, instead of meaningless Debates where I am up by more than 50 points.”

So, where’s the fraud?

    • cerevant@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      That’s why they believe there was fraud - they have first-hand knowledge.

  • Sylver@lemmy.world
    64·
    1 year ago

    What gets me is that there WAS fraud… Trump has a criminal court case in Georgia to prove it! He’s just pissy because he couldn’t commit MORE fraud

  • spaceghoti
    26·
    1 year ago

    They’ve only been claiming election fraud for decades, and spent millions (maybe billions, by now) in taxpayer dollars trying to find any kind of significant fraud that wasn’t from Republicans. They’ve never once found the smoking gun they promised, which includes Trump’s failed special commission while he was in office.

    But they’re never going to stop pushing that narrative, because they are literally trying to destroy democracy. They want a dictatorship where elections are meaningless and they retain power no matter what. It’s been their goal for a long time, and they’ve stopped pretending otherwise.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      About the only voter fraud that’s been found has been Republicans voting multiple times. And even that wasn’t at levels high enough to influence the results of the elections.

      And definitely no evidence of election fraud. Stuff like their claims that companies that make voting machines remotely flipped votes to Biden. There’s zero evidence for this and lots of evidence against it, but they still repeat these claims because they don’t like the alternative: they lost the election.

      • spaceghoti
        7·
        1 year ago

        They haven’t legitimately won an election in decades. Every single candidate they ran for President lost the popular vote, and the ones that gained office anyway did so because they’re gaming the system. They refuse to change their policies to gain votes fairly; they’d rather impose their policies regardless of the will of voters.

        Democracy hasn’t failed. They’ve simply abandoned democracy, and they’re no longer trying to hide it.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    As long as media keeps parroting the republican talking points, it doesn’t matter if there’s any evidence supporting it or not.

    Just like “£350 million per week for NHS” bullshit UK republicans were lying about during Brexit vote. Media kept parroting that narrative ad nauseam, and we know the rest of the story already.

  • guacupado@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Every Republican accusation is a confession. So far it’s Republicans who have been caught for voter fraud.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    “meaningless debates” he accidentally the truth.

    those debates are little more than commercial events. they are not challenged, before, during or after as to any details that matter. its scripted and useless.