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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?
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Gerrymandering in North Carolina
1,747,742 votes for Democrats = 3 Congressional seats
1,638,684 votes for Republicans = 10 Congressional seats
Example sources: [1], [2]
Are these…
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Did millions of illegal immigrants vote in the 2016 USA election?
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 people who voted illegally
I suppose referring to…
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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 voters that cast votes in the 2012 election
100% of…
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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 and results of elections, which would then imply…
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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 Pennsylvania registered to vote this year, setting a…
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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 be required, to rigged voting machines, to…
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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 evidence for use by anti-voter fraud conservatives and…
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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 crackpot conspiracy, but it has been covered by…
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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 unfortunate history of
election fraud. The Heritage…
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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 cases, you gotta vote … The mail ballots are…
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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 everything
Tories: 10.7m
Labour: 8.6m
Lib Dems:…
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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.
Consulting legal team.
and this tweet which says:
We have…
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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 to vote right-wing, and furthermore that this is a…
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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 countries, including the United Kingdom (63M), France…
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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 School of Law, which used three statistical tests to…
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