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Content: But not so with absentee ballot fraud. Although voter fraud of any kind is rare, absentee ballot fraud is the most common type. A high-profile instance in North Carolina last year involved “ballot harvesting,” in which unscrupulous operatives collected absentee ballots and filled them out themselves. A similar case occurred the year before in a small town in Mississippi. Well-publicized cases of such fraud have also been reported in Texas over the years. These cases are certainly the exception and not the rule. A comprehensive study of election fraud cases by Arizona State University’s News21 journalism project found only 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud out of literally billions of votes cast in U.S. elections since 2000. But, rare or not, if we were to move to vote-by-mail, would that significantly increase the risk of voter fraud? Probably not, according to the Heritage Foundation’s data. The think tank compiles a database of reported instances of voter fraud or election fraud.