This is a list of notable cases of electoral fraud in the United States, including elections that were overturned by the United States Congress due to allegations of electoral fraud. The list features instances of voter and ballot fraud, as well as elections where the results were altered by other illegal actions related to the voting process. It does not include cases that are limited to campaign finance violations, defined as a separate category of election crime by the United States government. [1] [2]
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Vote fraud was widespread on both sides.
Like Trump, Stephen Grover Cleveland lost reelection amid charges of voter fraud. Unlike the 2020 election, there actually was clear evidence of fraud in some states, especially Indiana.
The intimidation and fraudulent votes ensured a Democratic victory in North Carolina.
Some historians have attributed John Kennedy's win in Illinois in the 1960 presidential election to vote tampering in the fraud-riddled wards.
Noncitizen voting is a real, if small, problem: a Congressional investigation found that some noncitizens voted in the close 1996 House race in California between Robert K. Dornan, a Republican, and Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat, but not enough to affect the outcome. Unlike impersonation fraud, noncitizen voting cannot be dismissed as a Republican fantasy.
But in December 1997, with the district attorney's case involving evidence gleaned from over 300 interviews conducted by 40 investigators and a review of 33,000 documents before it, a grand jury declined to bring a single indictment. This closed the criminal investigation of Hermandad and severely undermined the veracity of Dornan's allegations that hundreds of noncitizens had fraudulently voted in Orange County...the House Committee investigation took a full year and produced, in the end, a disputed finding of fraud that was too insubstantial to convince the Republican-dominated House to reverse Sanchez's victory. On February 12, 1998, the House voted 378-33 to dismiss Dornan's contest.
The last prominent investigation into potential noncitizen voting involved a 1996 Orange County, California, congressional race between Bob Dornan and Loretta Sanchez. The evidence was highly contested.
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