Limits on how ballots get counted and who can cast them are likely coming.
Whether any of the proposed changes are worthy aside, the main argument driving them is not: the notion that there’s been election-changing voting fraud, as President Donald Trump and many of his allies claim. It’s false; simply made up.
There hasn’t been a documented case of that kind of subterfuge in federal elections, at least for a good while. You can look it up.
Neither is there evidence of widespread illegal voting by undocumented immigrants or noncitizens, as the president also repeatedly claims. You can look that up as well.
Voting by mail is not “cheating,” as the evidence-free president — who also has voted by mail — is fond of saying. You can… well, you get the idea.
One in three Americans voted by mail in the 2024 election — cheaters all? — which was actually down from a record 43 percent in 2020…
These frauds exploit emotional vulnerability and trust rather than technical weaknesses.
- Romance Scams: Scammers build long-term online relationships with victims, eventually fabricating a “crisis” (medical emergency, legal trouble, or travel costs) that requires the victim to send money.
- Pig Butchering: A hybrid scam where the criminal builds a romantic or platonic relationship to eventually “tutor” the victim in a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment.