Title: Voter Fraud Is Real—Here's How Democrats Want to Steal the 2020 Election | Opinion
Headings: Voter Fraud Is Real—Here's How Democrats Want to Steal the 2020 Election | Opinion
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Voter Fraud Is Real—Here's How Democrats Want to Steal the 2020 Election | Opinion
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Content: Voter fraud is a threat to the integrity of our elections, the heart of our democracy—and Democrats want to make the problem worse with their new voting laws. I believe this issue is incredibly important, now more than ever. So, as part of my ongoing Election 2020 podcast series, I decided to examine voter fraud in depth in this week's episode of my podcast, "Newt's World." My guest is Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and manager of the think tank's Election Law Reform Initiative. He is one of the preeminent experts on election law and election fraud, and he explains how Democrats are pushing proposals that will clearly make fraud more prevalent. Anyone who denies the existence of voter fraud in the U.S. needs to go to Heritage's online database, where they will find 1,285 proven instances of it—including 1,110 criminal convictions. Some of the stories are quite striking. In 2016, for example, Elbert Melton, the former mayor of Gordon, Alabama, illegally notarized two ballots, without witnesses present, while running for re-election. Melton won the race by only 16 votes—many local and state races are decided by such small margins. He was convicted of absentee ballot fraud, removed from office and sentenced to one year in prison.