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The conservative Heritage Foundation publishes an incomplete database of electoral fraud cases brought by prosecutors since 1979. [39] [40] [41] As of November 2023, there were 1,465 proven cases of election fraud listed in 44 years, an average of 33 cases per year. This represents a tiny fraction of total votes.
[60] [87] Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, and Paul Smith, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, questioned whether Texas has standing to bring the lawsuit and said the Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the case. [60] University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck remarked, "It looks ...
Investigators broke open a 2022 vote-buying case in Kentucky's Monroe County through a tip filed with the attorney general's election fraud hotline, a key tool the state uses to keep elections clean.
The DOJ did not break big news on this case before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. The DOJ usually keeps its investigations relatively quiet within 60 days of an election if they appear related to political issues. Although this is not a written formal policy, it is a longstanding norm. [30] [31] [32]
The searches came amid a broader push by Paxton to prosecute election fraud — a campaign that in 2023 spent $2.3 million to prosecute just four cases, according to the Houston Chronicle.
And in 2021, in tandem with their widespread claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Texas Republicans passed Senate Bill 1, a law that included provisions making it far harder for elderly ...
Texas argued it had standing to sue to prevent its votes from becoming "diluted". [29] Texas instead alleged that "fraud becomes undetectable" because "unlawful actions of election officials effectively destroy the evidence". Whether "voters committed fraud" was not the "constitutional issue" in this case, according to Texas.
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