Trump Says Voter Fraud is Rampant. The Evidence Says Otherwise.
If you’ve ever listened to President Trump talk about our elections, you might hear something like this: Voter fraud is rampant. Noncitizens are regularly voting illegally. And our elections are rigged. The president often uses the bully pulpit to repeat these claims despite study after study showing they’re just not true. But it’s not just […]
In a recent podcast interview, J. Christian Adams, a former trial attorney for the US Department of Justice and president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, made bold claims about rampant voter fraud in the United States. Adams, who was appointed to Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017, argued that noncitizens are regularly casting illegal votes and that our elections are rigged. Despite numerous studies disproving these allegations, Adams maintains his stance on voter fraud.
However, Ari Berman, Mother Jones National Voting Rights Correspondent, challenged these assertions on the recent episode of "More To The Story." Berman highlighted the lack of evidence supporting Adams' claims and questioned the motivations behind conservative activists who push for stricter voter ID laws and removal of illegal voters from election rolls.
It appears that these activists are not merely concerned about the integrity of the electoral process, but rather, they are aiming to disenfranchise legal voters, particularly those of color.
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