Voter Fraud Found

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There isn’t yet an exact number of how many U.S. citizens’ registrations were actually canceled or how many were canceled in total by counties after being flagged by SAVE, said Kristin Miles, the Bastrop County elections administrator and president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials.


“Counties are following appropriate list maintenance procedures under Texas law, and will ensure eligible voters whose registrations were cancelled are reinstated, and that only U.S. citizens remain on the voter rolls,” Miles said in an emailed statement.

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good on the Texas SOS, admitting that thousands of valid voters may have been struck erroneously from Texas voter rolls

Texas shouldn't have quit ERIC, tbh

Election officials across the state should immediately reinstate some voters who were incorrectly flagged as potential noncitizens through a federal program, the Texas Secretary of State’s Office told county officials Wednesday.

Christina Adkins, the state elections director, told county officials the state had reviewed Texas Department of Public Safety records confirming the citizenship of some of the 2,724 registered voters who were flagged as potential noncitizens, according to an audio recording of her comments obtained by Votebeat and The Texas Tribune, as well as election officials who heard them. The voters were flagged after the state checked its voter roll through a federal program called Systematic Alien Verification for En lements, or SAVE, used to verify the citizenship of people registered to vote.

Adkins said the state is still working through the data and that she couldn’t yet say how many of the 2,724 people had provided proof of citizenship to DPS and should thus be reinstated if they were already removed from the voter roll. She characterized SAVE as having “some inaccurate information” but added that “most of the data that we got out of SAVE was consistent with what DPS had.”

According to election officials, the secretary of state’s office said it plans in the coming days to send voter registrars additional information from DPS showing some of the flagged registered voters had in fact provided proof of citizenship to DPS while registering to vote or obtaining a driver’s license or state ID.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07...cretary-state/

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The Election Assistance Commission, formerly an independent US agency, is now subject to presidential control after Trump v Slaughter

Trump just fired all four members, rendering it ineffective four months from midterm elections

In related news, the Federal Election Commission lacks a quorum this year because Trump refuses to appoint another commission. The FEC is powerless to fulfill its congressional mandate.

https://www.votebeat.org/national/20...and-mccormick/

rendering US agencies unable to execute their legislative mandate is yet another

Trump hallmark

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depriving the public of the honest services of government

is searching for higher levels of social tolerance right now

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First attempt to stifle midterm voting in Tarrant County fails, Lon Burnam arrested

The debate comes less than a year after Republican commissioners voted last August to significantly cut the number of polling places.


By late afternoon, commissioners agreed to delay a decision until September. The proposal would reduce polling locations from about 316 in 2022 to 176 in November – roughly a 45% decrease.


Commissioners also considered lowering the number of early voting sites from 50 to 42. Tarrant County currently has more than 1.3 million registered voters.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...-court-debate/

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DOJ is 0-21 (out of 30) so far in voter roll lawsuits

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee who once ran the Justice Department's own legal office, dismissed Blanche's lawsuit against the D.C. Board of Elections.



Blanche had sued the board after it refused to hand over unredacted voter registration records — including partial Social Security and driver's license numbers — for more than 400,000 registered voters

https://www.rawstory.com/judge-rips-...e-voter-rolls/

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Moss ruled that le III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 — the law Blanche invoked to demand the data — only covers do ents that election officials receive from voters, such as registration applications, not lists the officials themselves create.



"Nothing in the text of le III compels this strange and unharmonious reading of federal election law," Moss wrote in the ruling.

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Trump's USPS voter suppression scheme hits a judicial roadblock

Federal judge blocks Sec. 3 of Trump's "election integrity" EO, involving USPS processing of mail ballots, for the midterms—finding that "the record before the court reflects a case ripe for adjudication," which has been a sticking point in challenges.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...49.183.0_2.pdf

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suppressing the vote in nursing homes, as one does now

“On July 20, 2026, CMS issued a memo that appears to be an attempt to intimidate nursing home staff from assisting residents in the voting process,” a group of senators led by Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.) and Alex Padilla (D-NJ) wrote August 12, in a letter addressed to Oz and shared exclusively with Mother Jones. The new memo “replaces language from CMS’s 2020 and 2024 guidance aimed at ensuring that facilities helped residents to vote with language threatening nursing home staff with prosecution for voter fraud.” The new guidance removes suggestions of specific ways nursing home staff can help residents vote—providing transportation to polling places, for example—and instead threatens staff with fraud investigations if they “engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...nursing-homes/

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Trump's voter fraud agitprop is a fraud or at least greatly exaggerated, according to official sources

off by ~10³ power

"potential anomalies"

A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...core-ios-share

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And to be clear, this is just 185 potential noncitizens who are *registered* to vote, not 185 potential noncitizens who *voted.*

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voter suppression

Rs are scared

More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state’s Voter Suspense list ahead of the fall’s contentious midterm elections.


That’s more than 6% of the state’s total 18 million registered voters, according to the Dallas Morning News — and many many not even know their voter registration status is suspended.

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas...are-suspended/

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check your voter registration status here and cure it before Oct. 5th

https://goelect.txelections.civixapp...mvp-ui/#/login

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The suspended registrations span the whole state, but also some of Texas’s largest counties, including Dallas County, where more than 129,000 voters are suspended; 56,000 voters in both Collin and Denton counties; and over 73,000 voters in Tarrant County

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yet more voter suppression in Texas

they're scared of Texas voters

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is sounding the alarm over potential voter suppression as Texas moves to shutter dozens of polling stations.


The Tarrant County Commissioners Court will vote Tuesday on a plan to reduce the county’s voting stations ahead of the midterm elections, the Associated Press reported. If approved, the key battleground county will scrap 92 polling stations just weeks ahead of the midterm elections.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214939/...-polling-sites

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Trump's pretextual voter fraud crackdown is cranking up

CNN reported Monday that, starting Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), will be surging personnel and resources to tracking down the chimerical foe of noncitizen voting.


HSI is the same investigative en y behind many of the abuses I described in yesterday’s newsletter, including shocking, conspiratorial and sometimes buffoonish efforts to spy on activists and journalists in the Twin Cities area following the federal occupation of the city last winter.


CNN’s story was based on federal guidance its reporters reviewed. According to the report, HSI is launching a “coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review.” It will target states including Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut, and will last through “mid-October,” CNN reported. The California Post, a Golden State offshoot of the New York Post, confirmed aspects of CNN’s reporting.

Because noncitizen voting is so vanishingly rare in modern American history, and has not impacted the outcome of any of the elections on which Republicans fixate, it’s unclear what the end game is here. The claim of widespread noncitizen voting largely serves as a pretextual predicate for Trump-era Republicans to attempt to clamp down on voting in ways that may hurt Democrats.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-br...y-begins-today

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Cites embedded at the link

 The Brennan Center’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that mostreported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices. The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied forvoter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Given this tinyincident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American“will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.”

 A study published by a Columbia University political scientist tracked incidence rates for voterfraud for two years, and found that the rare fraud that was reported generally could be traced to“false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error.”

 A 2017 analysis published in The Washington Post concluded that there is no evidence to support Trump’s claim that Massachusetts residents were bused into New Hampshire to vote.

 A comprehensive 2014 study published in The Washington Post found 31 credible instances ofimpersonation fraud from 2000 to 2014, out of more than 1 billion ballots cast. Even this tinynumber is likely inflated, as the study’s author counted not just prosecutions or convictions, butany and all credible claims.

 Two studies done at Arizona State University, one in 2012 and another in 2016, found similarlynegligible rates of impersonation fraud. The project found 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud nationwide from 2000-2012. The follow-up study, which looked for fraud specifically in stateswhere politicians have argued that fraud is a pernicious problem, found zero successful prosecutions for impersonation fraud in five states from 2012-2016.

 A review of the 2016 election found four do ented cases of voter fraud.

 Research into the 2016 election found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

 A 2016 working paper concluded that the upper limit on double voting in the 2012 election was 0.02%. The paper noted that the incident rate was likely much lower, given audits conducted by 2the researchers showed that “many, if not all, of these apparent double votes could be a result of measurement error.”

 A 2014 paper concluded that “the likely percent of non-citizen voters in recent US elections is 0.”

 A 2014 nationwide study found “no evidence of widespread impersonation fraud” in the 2012 election.

 A 2014 study that examined impersonation fraud both at the polls and by mail ballot found zero instances in the jurisdictions studied.

 A 2014 study by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, which reflected a literature review of the existing research on voter fraud, noted that the studies consistently found “few instances of in-person voter fraud.”

 While writing a 2012 book, a researcher went back 30 years to try to find an example of voter impersonation fraud determining the outcome of an election, but was unable to find even one.

 A 2012 study exhaustively pulled records from every state for all alleged election fraud, and foundthe overall fraud rate to be “infinitesimal” and impersonation fraud by voters at the polls to bethe rarest fraud of all: only 10 cases alleged in 12 years. The same study found only 56 allegedcases of non-citizen voting, in 12 years.

 A 2012 assessment of Georgia’s 2006 election found “no evidence that election fraud wascommitted under the au es of deceased registrants.”

 A 2011 study by the Republican National Lawyers Association found that, between 2000 and2010, 21 states had 1 or 0 convictions for voter fraud or other kinds of voting irregularities.

 A 2010 book cataloguing reported incidents of voter fraud concluded that nearly all allegations turned out to be clerical errors or mistakes, not fraud.

 A 2009 analysis examined 12 states and found that fraud by voters was “very rare,” and also concluded that many of the cases that garnered media attention were ultimately unsubstantiated upon further review.

 Additional research on noncitizen voting can be found here:http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/analysis-noncitizen-voting-vanishingly-rare.

 Additional resources can be found here: https://www.brennancenter.org/analys...sis-andreports.

Courts Agree: Fraud by Voters at the Polls is Nearly Non-Existent

 The Fifth Circuit, in an opinion finding that Texas’s strict photo ID law is racially discriminatory,noted that there were “only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of 20 million votes cast in the decade” before Texas passed its law.3

 In its opinion striking down North Carolina’s omnibus restrictive election law —which included avoter ID requirement — as purposefully racially discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit noted that thestate “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing inperson voter fraud in North Carolina.”

 A federal trial court in Wisconsin reviewing that state’s strict photo ID law found “that impersonation fraud — the type of fraud that voter ID is designed to prevent — is extremely rare” and “a truly isolated phenomenon that has not posed a significant threat to the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections.”

 Even the Supreme Court, in its opinion in Crawford upholding Indiana’s voter ID law, noted thatthe record in the case “contains no evidence of any [in-person voter impersonation] fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history.” Two of the jurists who weighed in on that case at the time — Republican-appointed former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and conservative appellate court Judge Richard Posner — have since announced they regret their votes in favor of the law, with Judge Posner noting that strict photo ID laws are “now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention.”

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Briefing_Memo_Debunking_Voter_Fraud_Myth.pdf

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2014:

• In one of the most comprehensive investigations of fraud, Justin Levitt of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles turned up 31 credible instances of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion votes cast between 2000 and 2014. Some of those cases may have been because of clerical errors. Levitt's investigation suggests that while voter impersonation does indeed happen, it happens so rarely that the rate is approximately one instance out of ever 32 million ballots cast. This is similar to the odds of getting “heads” 25 times in a row on a coin toss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ually-nothing/

same for 2016:

• In December, a Washington Post analysis of news reports found four do ented cases of voter fraud out of about 136 million votes cast. That would yield a voter fraud rate of one instance per every 34 million ballots, close to what Levitt's investigation turned up. Two of those fraud cases involved Trump voters trying to vote twice, one involved a Republican election judge trying to fill out a ballot on behalf of her dead husband, and the last involved a poll worker filling in bubbles for a mayoral candidate in absentee ballots in Florida.

• A team of Dartmouth researchers undertook a comprehensive statistical investigation of the 2016 results, looking for evidence of abnormal voting patterns. They checked for evidence of noncitizen voting, dead people voting and tampering by election officials. They didn't find any. “Our findings do strongly suggest, however, that voter fraud concerns fomented by the Trump campaign are not grounded in any observable features of the 2016 presidential election,” they concluded (emphasis theirs). “There is no evidence of millions of fraudulent votes.”

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Jesus

If this is accurate, a pallet of mail in votes (about 10,000 votes) gets discarded if a ballot with a faulty address or misspelled name turns up

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blindingly illegal and uncons utional if it holds

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Tarrant County saves on election costs by closing 30% of polling sites

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incidence of POSSIBLE non-citizen voter registration in Texas appears to be infinitessimal

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0.0000065 incidence out of 18M voters

that 6 is in the millionths place

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official error may affect 10s of 1000s of voters

Just weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.


DPS failed to send the applications, which were submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars for processing, according to an email sent to county officials and provided to Votebeat. The state confirmed to Votebeat that it would begin delivering the unsent registrations to county officials overnight.


State officials said the affected transactions produced incomplete voter registration records, which prevented them from being transmitted to county registrars. Officials have not said what information was missing, what caused the records to be incomplete, how many voters were affected, or exactly when the problem began.


The DPS portal is a major voter registration channel in Texas. From 2020 through 2024, about 6 million Texans used it to register to vote, according to testimony DPS officials provided to state lawmakers in 2025. Texas has more than 18 million registered voters.

https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/...sed-dps-error/