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?

  • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
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    10 months 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.