There is no out-of-control voter fraud.
This is just a straight-up lie.
Don't believe us? Then just listen to Donald Trump's own attorneys.
Even as Donald was claiming -- with zero proof -- that between 3 million and 5 million ballots were illegally cast in the 2016 election, his own lawyers were adamant that "all available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake" in court filings in Michigan aimed to block a recount effort by Green Party candidate Jill Stein (read the entire document here).
Likewise, in a court filing in Pennsylvania, legal representatives for Trump and his campaign said, "There is no evidence -- or even any allegation -- that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred" (read the entire document here). In this case, the attorneys went even further: "The absence of any evidence of tampering is no surprise. Before the election, Secretary of State Pedro Cortés assured Pennsylvanian voters that Pennsylvania's voting systems are 'secure,' and criticized contrary suggestions as 'not only wrong and uninformed, but also 'dangerous.'"
You can also take a gander at Donald Trump's own Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, which met just twice and never issued a report on their findings. Maine’s secretary of state who was initially appointed to the Commission, Democrat Matt Dunlap, told author David Daley, “It was a dishonest effort from the very beginning. It was never really meant to uncover anything. It was meant to backfill an unprovable thesis that there’s voter fraud — then to issue a fake report justifying laws or executive orders that change the fundamental nature of how we run elections. I think that might have been the real danger that we averted.”
It wasn't just Democrats who became disenchanted with the Commission. The effort got off to a rough start when Kris Kobach — Kansas’ former secretary of state and the vice chairman of the Commission (read more about this genius below) — demanded that state-election officials give the Commission tons of voter data, to include Social Security numbers, party registration and voting history. That request did not go over well, and most all of the election officials seemingly felt the way Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, did about the request: “They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.”
In the end, a court order forced the Trump administration to turn over documents from the Commission to Matt Dunlap, who promptly posted them on a website. An analysis of the documents by the Associated Press led them to say, "The now-disbanded voting integrity commission launched by the Trump administration uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud."
There are not thousands upon thousands of non-citizens voting. Period. On January 27, 2019, Donald Trump tweeted: "58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID!” -- a premise that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was more than happy to help promote. The TRUTH -- which neither Donald Trump nor Ken Paxton bothered to later clarify -- is that, yes, the Texas Department of Public Safety did indeed flag 95,000 names of potential non-citizens who were possibly registered to vote. But THEN, the state of Texas and individual counties began clearing names from that list as the citizenship status of people on the list were confirmed. The Texas Tribune reports that, very quickly, "the number of registered voters flagged by the state began to plummet...Soon after, the citizenship review effort buckled, revealing itself as a ham-handed exercise that threatened to jeopardize the votes of thousands of legitimate voters across the state. The secretary of state’s office eventually walked back its initial findings after embarrassing errors in the data revealed that tens of thousands of the voters the state flagged were citizens."
Now on to Florida. In 2012, there were reports that up to 200,000 registered voters in Florida may not have been U.S. citizens. After a thorough investigation by then Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, the actual number turned out to be 207.
Six years later, the same Rick Scott, now running for the U.S. Senate, claimed that the votes from Broward County — a county in Florida that generally votes Democratic — were tainted. Once again, this was proven false. On May 21, 2020, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement released a report regarding the 2018 midterm election. The report found “no evidence of fraudulent intent” and “no evidence of fraudulent intent to use the altered forms by the Florida Democratic Party after more than a year-long investigation into alleged vote-by-mail fraud."
Donald Trump claimed that “thousands” of people were “brought in on buses” to New Hampshire from neighboring Massachusetts to “illegally” vote in the 2016 election. After a months-long investigation by the New Hampshire Secretary of State and the state's Department of Justice, this was proven completely false. The Boston Globe reported that "The two state agencies found that among the approximately 743,000 voters who cast ballots in the 2016 general election, just four appeared to have voted illegally, mostly out of confusion about where they were supposed to vote. For example, some said they were told to go to an incorrect location, others thought they were allowed to vote any place where they own property."
The article continues, "Of the 6,000 who registered to vote on Election Day and signed an affidavit swearing to be a state resident, just 66 in 15 communities did not ultimately have their identities verified. While the state could not confirm exactly why they couldn’t contact those people, Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards cautioned: No one should reach any conclusion that an unlawful vote was cast, because we have not been able to identify these voters.'"
In 2018, in the great state of Georgia, then Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp ran for governor while, at the same time, was in charge of enforcing Georgia’s voting laws. That seems fair, right? During his race for governor, the Secretary of State's office (again, led by candidate Kemp) instituted an "exact match" law, which put over 53,000 voter registration applications on hold. < "Exact match" laws require that citizens’ names on their government-issued IDs must match perfectly their names as listed on the voter rolls. If there is any discrepancy whatsoever — even something like a missing hyphen or a missing middle initial — the name is flagged. >
According to the Associated Press in 2018, "Brian Kemp’s office has cancelled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012. Nearly 670,000 registrations were cancelled in 2017 alone....Georgia’s population is approximately 32 percent black, according to the U.S. Census, but the list of voter registrations on hold with Kemp’s office is nearly 70 percent black." Hmmm....this was an interesting development given that Kemp's opponent in the race for governor, Democrat Stacey Abrams, is African American. Wow! That is just a huge coincidence! Even though a judge threw out Kemp's unconstitutional "system" right before the election — saying there were "grave concerns for the Court about the differential treatment inflicted on a group of individuals who are predominantly minorities...The election scheme here places a severe burden on these individuals." — Kemp nevertheless (surprise, surprise) won.
Then there is good 'ol Kris Kobach from Kansas, our genius from Donald Trump's Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. This is a guy who, unlike Brian Kemp, couldn't actually win his campaign for governor, even with the advantage of trying to cheat. Kobach, Kansas’ former secretary of state, was super proud of the fact that changes he implemented in the voting process — including requiring people to provide documents (i.e. birth certificate, passports) to register to vote — probably prevented as many as 18,000 people from voting illegally. Problem is that, even after an extensive investigation by Kobach himself, he could only find 127 ineligible individuals who actually voted (or tried) to vote. In the end, Kobach obtained nine convictions and, as NBC News reports, "most were older individuals who had misunderstood their voting rights — and just one was a noncitizen." That's some impressive law enforcement there, buddy!