Where was all the "voter fraud"?

Ehhh Faux news talks a lot of BS. The only reason they’re not crying it now is because things turned out the way they wanted by in large. They’re already decrying fraud and problems in Alaska where their senate candidate looks like he’ll lose.

Fear mongering. Consider the source.

it has been fear mongering from Fox and friends for the last 5 elections, ever since evidence of poll-tampering by the Bush folks came to light in 2000.

There was a lot of effort in some states (Arizona, Nevada) to deter Latinos from voting, but it didn’t succeed.

Voter fraud is a tricky thing to effect on a scale large enough to sway statewide, let alone national, elections. Oft times, it would have to amount to a massive conspiracy and coverup for it to happen at all.

You might recall back in 2008 there was a tremendous amount of hoopla around Republican-driven voter fraud against democrat voters (basically, the polar opposite situation)... and that also died down practically overnight.

The problem in this and most cases is that the media (and not just Fox News) will report anecdotal incidents from “eye witnesses” and then irresponsibly speculate on the worst possible spin. It’s annoying, but not unusual.

In my mind, this is a problem with modern-day journalism… and the increasing lack of respect for facts in the quest for more sensationalism.

Is the hacking of electronic voting machines by multiple college professors voter fraud?

Once again, actual instances of voter fraud have proven to be way less severe than all of the fear-mongering. I really believe that the whole point of weeks of discussion about ‘vote fraud’ is to scare minorities away from voting for fear they’ll be harassed.

Voter fraud is mostly Republican speak for their own illegal suppress-the-vote actions. In the 2006 election where there were allegations of massive voter fraud giving Democrats control of the House, the Bush Justice department tracked down every case they could find and were able to identify 19 ballots that were actually counted after being cast by people who had, for one reason or another, lost their right to vote but the voter registration records had not caught up.

But every election cycle, Republicans claim that they fear massive voter fraud and try to use that as an excuse to send large teams of lawyers and people dressed like police or secret agents of some kind into poor, inner city polls where they hope the appearance will scare off voters. This is actually illegal. Karl Rove got into trouble for having been too blatant about it early in his career. He had operatives telling poor voters that if they voted, the city would check for any tickets, fines or unpaid taxes and arrest them on the spot if any were found. But it’s part of our bitter partisan divide now, for better for for worse.

@ETpro – Don’t forget when the head of Diebold (voting machine maker) said he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President (who was, in 2003, GWB). And then we had issues with the votes in Ohio that year…

@laureth I have certainly not forgotten that. And the fraud likely gave Bush the electoral win. It’s likely Jh=ohn Kerry actually won Ohio which would have given him the electoral win but not the popular vote win. Maybe Republicans worry so much about voter fraud because they assume Democrats cheat as much as they do.