Title: Trump's Bogus Voter Fraud Claims - FactCheck.org
Headings: Trump’s Bogus Voter Fraud Claims
Trump’s Bogus Voter Fraud Claims
Dead People
Noncitizens
Is Voter Fraud ‘Common’?

Content: and 10 cases contained “insufficient information in the record to make a determination.” Cases of people actually voting fraudulently on behalf of deceased people are rare — though isolated examples have occurred, Minnite said. “There are a handful of known cases in which documentation shows that votes have been cast in the names of voters who have died before the vote was submitted,” wrote Justin Levitt in a 2007 report, “ The Truth About Voter Fraud ,” for the Brennan Center for Justice. “ It is far more common, however, to see unfounded allegations of epidemic voting from beyond the grave.” Much of the misinformation about “dead people voting” is due to “flawed matches from one place (death records) to another (voter rolls),” Levitt found. Levitt explored five reports of widespread fraud regarding “dead voters” and found all of them were unfounded or greatly exaggerated. Noncitizens
The second leg of Trump’s allegation of widespread voter fraud rests on “illegal immigrants voting,” another practice that experts told us is fairly rare. In Wisconsin, Trump cited a 2014 Washington Post article titled “ Could non-citizens decide the November election? ” It was a piece penned by Old Dominion University professors Jesse Richman and David Earnest about research the two later published in the journal Electoral Studies. It turns out to be a disputed and very controversial study.