In 2023, voting irregularities and fraud were discovered in at least four U.S. elections, leading to new voting in the majority of those contests. These elections were overturned by courts.
The first a most recent was a Louisiana judge that voided the results of a local sheriff’s race and ordered a runoff election after illegal votes were discovered. The race had been previously determined by ONE vote.
According to the decision, at least five absentee ballots were counted that shouldn’t have been, four invalid votes cast by unqualified voters, and two people voted twice.
Last month in November, a Bridgeport, Connecticut judge overturned the results of the Democrat mayoral primary election and ordered a new election in connection to allegations of absentee ballot abuse after a video was posted online that appeared to show a supporter of incumbent Democrat Mayor Joe Ganim stuffing stacks of papers into a ballot drop box.
Additionally in November, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals upheld the decision of a lower court to change Daisy Campos-Rodriguez’s declaration of victory in the 2022 District II Laredo City Council election to Ricardo Rangel Jr.
A Texas district court judge declared earlier this year that 11 votes cast for Campos-Rodriguez in the general election of November 2022 were fraudulent. Several Laredo Police Department officers cast votes, leading to the suspension of three of them and the retirement of another. At first, Campos-Rodriguez was deemed the victor by six votes.
The last ruling was by a Vilas County Circuit Court judge in Wisconsin that found that the results of a town board election in April had votes that were illegally cast. The election was decided by a one-vote margin.
The judge set aside the results and ordered a new election be held Nov. 14. and in the new election, MacLean (who originally lost and filed the lawsuit) won by 29 votes.
Steve Clyburn
December 11, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Four elections, none federal, out of hundreds if not thousands, do not indicate widespread fraud.
Jack
December 11, 2023 at 4:05 pm
To have four elections overturned because of fraud is four too many and should not be trivialized.
In this day of close elections, one or two fraudulent votes could produce false results.
Too many jurisdictions discovered fraud but decided it wasn’t massive enough to continue the investigation. Yet, since the investigation didn’t continue to the end, how do they know there wasn’t enough fraud to matter?
And then there’s the Registrar in Pr Wm County who changed the vote totals to her liking.
No fraud should ever be tolerated. None at all.