OKAY SO I just posted a rant about voter fraud in the US on FB because I have conservative people on there who could use it. And then I figured, I should replicate it here. So: on voter fraud.

So: Point 1.

There is no widespread voter fraud.

I've seen some Republican agitators say that Dems are lying because we keep saying there's no voter fraud, or because we say fraud would not change the outcome of the election.

Let's dispel that: Biden leads across six key states in margins between 12,000 (Georgia) and 146,000 (Michigan). Biden has, in just those states, a 300,000 total lead. So for voter fraud to have affected the outcome, there would need to be a conspiracy involving thousands.

You would have to have everyone from individual poll workers, precinct judges, non-partisan and bipartisan observers, as well as party attorneys, county election officials, and state level secretaries of state to sign off on a coordinated conspiracy across six states.

That's just in who you'd need to convince, bribe, or otherwise turn to your side to not only commit to a massive criminal conspiracy, but to agree to take it to their graves.

People just don't function like that.

So it's simply not possible.

But what about actual voter fraud? Surely that happens!

Yes! It does. The Heritage Foundation has a helpful database chronicling cases of election fraud - not just voter fraud - going back to the 70s.

According to them, in 40+ years, across the entire US, there have been 1,298 cases of election fraud.

That's smaller than the small town my dad currently lives in. 1300 cases, over forty years.

Consider that just in the scope of the last two major presidential elections:

129,000,000 people voted in 2016.

161,000,000 people voted in 2020.

So we have 1300 instances of election fraud over 40+ years when we have between 125-170 million people voting every four years.

But let's look closer at actual cases:

- A woman who forged signatures to get a referendum on the ballot in her county
- Her husband, who forged signatures with her (Heritage counts these as two separate cases).
- A man forged his grandparents signatures on a ballot request

- A man illegally notarized two ballots without witnesses present.
- Several cases of convicted felons voting illegally
- Numerous cases of candidates trying to buy 1-2 votes in small town council races/very small offices
- A woman posted misleading info about an election online

I'm summarizing cases, here, and i'm already back to 2010. I skipped quite a few that were obviously the same case with multiple people involved. The vast majority of cases involve small time, county level stuff.

And there's a reason for that.

You cannot swing a presidential election through voter fraud. On county/city levels, you're dealing with a much more controlled environment and in an election where maybe 1000 votes are cast, a few votes can make the difference.

But those vast conspiracies proposing that literally hundreds of thousands of people cast illegal ballots, or that thousands of poll workers illegally tossed ballots for people they didn't like, with no one noticing?

Not a thing. Period.

The sheer math bears this out. There is no "what if" here. There is nothing there.

Buying into the idea that Biden is not president because of some mythical widespread voter fraud is to buy into being a flunkie for an attempted coup. Full stop.