Use this tag for questions regarding voting, voting fraud, voting suppression, and general voting habits of voters.
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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 to believe.
“As of Monday, 311 election…
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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 between 2012 and 2014.
I'm not skeptical that she voted…
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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-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed…
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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 voting yes had to register
as a volunteer for…
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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, Kentucky has about 3,700 polling sites, according…
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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 almost any measure so what would such a move say…
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Do people in USA have to take an unpaid vacation day to vote?
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 their salary reduced in a month where they take part…
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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 this…
…two main arguments are used by Peter Moore…
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Would mail-in voting strain or break the US postal system?
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 want an
election to be stolen from either party. I…
Mawg says reinstate Monica
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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, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed…
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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 United States that appear to have more registered…
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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):
No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by…
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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 social media has any significant influence on the way…
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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 woman who already had sold her vote. The man who…
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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 have tainted more than 1 million votes…
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