The New York Times assigned a team of reporters call every state to ask if anyone had seen voter fraud. Quite the challenge, but important nonetheless as Donald Trump and his right-wing allies have asserted the election was “stolen” from the president. The Times writes:
But top election officials across the country said in interviews and statements that the process had been a remarkable success despite record turnout and the complications of a dangerous pandemic.
“There’s a great human capacity for inventing things that aren’t true about elections,” said Frank LaRose, a Republican who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state. “The conspiracy theories and rumors and all those things run rampant. For some reason, elections breed that type of mythology.”
The Times contacted election officials in all 50 states. Forty-five responded directly to the newspaper and four others the Times spoke with other statewide officials. None reported any major voting issues. Texas officials refused comment.
The newspaper made a major splash with its investigation on the front page of Wednesday’s newspaper.
It should be noted that election fraud is extremely rare in the United States and in 2020, the swing states Joe Biden flipped from Donald Trump (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania), Biden’s lead is in the tens of thousands of votes.
