{"id":46776,"date":"2014-11-06T05:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/true-the-vote-discovers-the-extent-of-voter-fraud-in-the-us.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:02:43","slug":"true-the-vote-discovers-the-extent-of-voter-fraud-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/true-the-vote-discovers-the-extent-of-voter-fraud-in-the-us.html","title":{"rendered":"True the Vote discovers the extent of voter fraud in the US!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And &#8230; that it&#39;s not very extensive. At all.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;True the Vote,&quot; a &quot;voter integrity:&quot; group, provided an app for folk to report on election day voter fraud they observed. What they got back  were &#8230; well, more cases of restrictive voter ID laws keeping people from voting than anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/true-votes-voter-fraud-app-bust-undercuts-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1vrU1yoejhOtsCy9CbgMDa8m1hiT8pI_IhgW8TejcZBK7-tj8ADLC2ixBaq-V5yZ6Ej0wah47g6ZU-wkAr9FIlJfVpDBlAJo16VYEOLVSsZWRbboINpkVmp84Nc1VXz2e0CIVw=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/true-votes-voter-fraud-app-bust-undercuts-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories'>True The Vote&#8217;s Election Day App Undercuts Its Own Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA week before Election Day, the &ldquo;voter integrity&rdquo; group True the Vote released a new smart phone app to empower its  army of citizen detectives  to report suspected incidents of voter frau\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bSnD16fboCi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And &#8230; that it&#39;s not very extensive. At all. &quot;True the Vote,&quot; a &quot;voter integrity:&quot; group, provided an app for folk to report on election day voter fraud they observed. What they got back were &#8230; well, more cases of restrictive voter ID laws keeping people from voting than anything else. True The Vote&#8217;s Election &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/true-the-vote-discovers-the-extent-of-voter-fraud-in-the-us.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True the Vote discovers the extent of voter fraud in the US!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/people-pretending-to-vote-as-someone-they-are.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":0},"title":"People pretending to vote as someone they are","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-May-14 11:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"simply doesn't happenSo here's a guy who campaigned on voter fraud, who pushed for strict voter ID laws, and who, as Secretary of State of Iowa spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate \"voter fraud\" in the 2012 election to prove his claim. \u00a0What did he find?He found a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/wisconsin-voter-suppression-2016.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":1},"title":"On Wisconsin and Voter Suppression in 2016","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Oct-17 1:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Voter ID laws and similar shenanigans are always passed with the ostensible justification that they prevent voter fraud -- even though evidence of such fraud is always starkly lacking. Meanwhile, such laws demonstrably suppress voter turn-out, particularly from poorer voters, minority voters, students, and other groups that tend to vote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vote-here-whites-only.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131420,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/04\/the-myth-of-voter-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":2},"title":"The myth of voter fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Sep-16 5:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been said many, many times before, but here's a nice summary white paper from the Brennan Center for Justice that looks at all the reviews of voter fraud -- someone who is not eligible to vote voting, or impersonating an eligible voter -- show it to be exceedingly rare,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/toles_on_voting.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/toles_on_voting.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/toles_on_voting.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27956,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/scott-walker-puts-his-thumb-on-the-scales-regarding-voter-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":3},"title":"Scott Walker puts his thumb on the scales regarding voter fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-May-12 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, Scott, voter fraud doesn't constitute 1-3% of all votes. Really. If you have something that says so, please do trot it out, because otherwise I call shenanigans.By which I mean, it's a lie to justify voter ID laws, which observably do suppress voting by percentage points (and percentage points\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133384,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/30\/how-bad-was-the-2016-voter-fraud-in-north-carolina-without-their-voter-id-law.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":4},"title":"How bad was the 2016 voter fraud in North Carolina without their Voter ID law?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Apr-17 4:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Awful. Just awful.'For years, Republicans in North Carolina have alleged that in-person fraudulent voting is widespread while Democrats have said it is non-existent. But no one knew for sure, leaving the two sides talking past each other on voter ID.On Friday, the State Board of Elections released the results of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39347,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/on-womens-names-and-voter-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":46776,"position":5},"title":"On Women&#39;s Names and Voter Fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Oct-13 11:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, she looks pretty darned suspicious. \u00a0The key was discovering that her drivers license shows her maiden name as the middle name (as, apparently, Texas law required back when she got married in 1964), but her voter registration shows her born middle name as the middle name. 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