Questions tagged [voting]
Use this tag for questions regarding voting, voting fraud, voting suppression, and general voting habits of voters.
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Does New York restrict voting more than Georgia's new law?
Some people have claimed that New York actually restricts voting more than Georgia, even after Georgia's new Election Integrity Act.
New York’s voting laws are far more restrictive than Georgia’s by ...
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Is it illegal to give water to voters in line in Delaware?
After the passage of S.B. 202 in the U.S. state of Georgia, there was a lot of outcry about the provision that makes it illegal for anyone to hand out food or water at the polls (emphasis added):
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Did Emma Willard send a letter to the French government appealing for women’s suffrage in 1848?
In T.M. Roberts' Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the challenge to American Exceptionalism it's said briefly (on p. 92 and without a citation/reference) that:
In 1848 Emma Willard, the director of the ...
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Did Georgia absentee voting expire before the election was over?
The claim: "The emergency order passed in Georgia to allow absentee voting (see: fraud) expired 5 days before the election with no renewal."
Did the authorization for mail-in voting expire ...
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Did a "Drop and Roll" phenomena expose that the 2020 election was stolen?
Jim and Joe Hoft, of the Gateway Pundit, identified an apparent fraudulent voting phenomena that they dub "Drop and Roll" in a YouTube video.
They claim that in a number of states, Trump was ...
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Was any part of the technology used in America's 2020 Election created by Venezuela or impacted by Hugo Chavez?
Sidney Powell was recently quoted as saying,
"The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not ...
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Were a large number of votes from suspiciously old Pennsylvanians received in the 2020 US presidential election?
There have been many claims that votes were received from dead voters in the 2020 US presidentil election.
For example, @AndySwan tweeted:
Joe Biden was so inspiring that all the 90+ year olds in ...
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Was there a "dump" of votes in Michigan where 138,339 votes were added for Biden and 0 for Trump and does this indicate potential fraud?
A Twitter meme circulating says that, at some point last night, a huge "dump" of votes were counted which were exclusively for Biden, with none for Trump.
I was ready to dismiss this as a ...
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Was post-DNC polling concealed?
The Twitter account of Republican pollster Rasmussen Reports just tweeted this:
Last night @donlemon called for the rioting to end, "because it's showing up in the polling."
What polling? ...
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Would mail-in voting strain or break the US postal system? [closed]
In this interview with Jacqueline Policastro, I read
President Trump:
No, not trying to suppress it. I want to have the vote. I want to
actually have the vote. I want to have the real vote. I don't ...
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Can red state legislature automatically give Trump a second term?
Their are some people online (Greg Palast) saying that if Trump loses the election, he will claim fraud, have the results thrown out and have state legislature use the 12 amendment to give him a ...
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Did Kentucky cut polling locations by 95% due to lack of volunteers?
The Independent has an article titled ‘It’s going to be an angry mob’: Kentucky cuts number of polling stations by 95 percent ahead of primary voting. The article claims:
In a typical election year, ...
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Is voting by mail subject to substantial fraud in the US?
Donald Trump has been fulminating about Twitter fact-checking this claim:
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed,...
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Did Trump vote by mail in the last two elections?
In a recent controversy it was claimed that
“Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country because they’re cheaters,” [Trump] said. “They go and collect them, they’re fraudulent in many ...
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Does preferential voting disadvantage minor parties and independents?
Starting from something shared on a face book feed I came across a claim that a disadvantage of preferential voting is that it disadvantages (reduces the chance of being elected) minor parties and ...
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Did more than 300 polling workers die as a result of their work during the spring 2019 Indonesian election?
So I read this CNN article titled bluntly, “More than 300 workers dead after Indonesian election” and am finding the sheer numbers of workers dead—or have fallen ill—due to being overworked a bit hard ...
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Do people in USA have to take an unpaid vacation day to vote? [closed]
As a European I was quite shocked to hear that people in the USA have to take an unpaid vacation day from work to be able to take part in elections.
Is that really true? So do people really get ...
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Did Republicans take 10 of 13 Congressional seats in the 2018 North Carolina general election with roughly the same number of votes as Democrats?
This image has been shared on social media
Transcription:
Gerrymandering in North Carolina
1,747,742 votes for Democrats = 3 Congressional seats
1,638,684 votes for Republicans = 10 Congressional ...
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Did Facebook ads significantly influence voting behaviour in the 2016 presidential election?
There have been significant concerns in some political groups about foreign interference via social media on many recent elections. But there seems to be little hard evidence that any content on ...
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Are discrepancies between exit polls and official election results in the US usually indicative of systematic election problems? [duplicate]
Paul Grossinger writes on Inc.com about the last US presidential election:
1) In 28 states doing exit polling, 23 states had a margin favoring Trump, against 5 for Clinton. That's 82% of states ...
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In Kentucky, did one man beat up another man after they both bought the same woman's vote?
According to the Washington Post article Selling votes is common type of election fraud:
corrupt candidates in Clay County, Ky., once paid $100. But that was probably too much: It attracted one ...
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Does gerrymandering have a significant effect on the number of congressional seats won by Republicans?
From an AP article titled
Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP:
The AP’s findings are similar to recent ones from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University ...
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Was there electoral fraud at the Catalan independence referendum?
The Catalan Independence Referendum of Oct 1, 2017, certainly has problems enough (deemed illegal beforehand, low participation, police conflicts, etc.), but apart from that - was there voter fraud
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Are there "1,071 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud"?
The Heritage Foundation, an American Conservative think tank, has recently published a report listing over a thousand individuals who committed voter fraud:
The United States has a long and ...
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Did non-voters outnumber the supporters of each political party in the UK in 2010?
I have noticed this image in social media recently:
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Non-voters outnumbered the supporters of every single political party in 2010
Did not vote: 15.9m - these people could change ...
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Are 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote in the United States?
A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.
The National Hispanic Survey provides additional ...
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Did the same Mexican citizen vote illegally in the United States 5 times between 2012-2014?
A Fox News story says:
Rosa Maria Ortega, 37, was found guilty Wednesday on two counts of illegal voting after she falsely claimed to be a United States citizen and voted at least five times ...
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Did millions of illegal immigrants vote in the 2016 USA election? [duplicate]
According to president elect Donald Trump, millions of people voted illegally:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of ...
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Were 3 million votes cast by non-citizens in the 2016 US presidential election?
Various websites are repeating the claim in this tweet, which says:
Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.
Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million.
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Are there 141 US Counties that have more registered voters than residents?
141 Counties in the United States have more registered voters than they have adult residents
A public interest law firm is threatening to bring lawsuits against more than 100 counties across the ...
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Does Mexico have stringent voter ID requirements?
Does the picture below (found on Facebook) accurately describe laws regarding voter identification cards in Mexico?
To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-...
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Do less-intelligent people vote right-wing because they feel safe?
The always fascinating Daily Mail came out with a rather surprising article where it claims a Canadian experiment, or review, concluded that people with less-than-average childhood intelligence tend ...
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Was there an electoral fraud during the referendum for the independance of Scotland?
Peter Moore, a francophone Canadian Youtuber, says in a Youtube video that there was an electoral fraud during the referendum about the independance of Scotland.
Given the ballot paper looked like ...
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Was an amendment proposed making everyone in favour of a war liable for military service?
Apparently from Ultrafacts.tumblr.com, with a tweet version retweeted 137 times:
In 1916 an amendment was proposed to the Constitution that all acts of
war would be put to a national vote. Anyone ...
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Were there 1 million fraudulent votes in the 2012 US election?
According to this article: (emphasis mine)
But now, for the very first time, comes concrete proof that massive voter fraud might have taken place in the 2012 election, sufficiently widespread to ...
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Is there a "red shift" in U.S. elections — a significant shift to republican votes between polls and voting? Does this imply fraud?
This questions on Politics SE introduced me to the concept of the red shift. In short, the claim of a red shift boils down to a statistically significant difference between outcome of final exit polls ...
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Does United States have no technology to allow Internet voting in a secure way?
In 2011, nearly a quarter (24.3%) of participating voters in Estonia cast their ballot by remote electronic voting (that is, on their computer/phone/tablet via the Internet).
Several larger ...
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Is voter fraud practically non-existent in the United States?
The issue of voter fraud comes up very often at election times. In the media, it is nearly always pictured as a really important and urgent problem. It ranges from whether photo identification should ...
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Was there 100% turnout and 100% Obama support in Cuyahoga County in 2012 Presidential Election?
The Tea Party Facebook page posted this Monday night.
Is it accurate that:
There are exactly 900135 registered voters in Cuyahoga County Ohio for the 2012 predidental election
There were 900135 ...
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