The Election Fraud Debate: How Are Votes Really Stolen?

The probability of election fraud is astronomical, given the potential spoils for the winners.

John F. Di Leo | March 17, 2026

With the SAVE America Act facing Senate consideration this week, it is perhaps a good time to talk about what election fraud really is. 

Most people have a vision in their heads of corrupt city pollworkers, waiting for lulls on election day when there are no witnesses, and sneakily casting ballots on behalf of names on the voting rolls whom they know to have died or moved away, or have never existed at all. 

This does still occur.  The method is tried and true, and we know it happens, because virtually every cycle, there are a few prosecutions for this crime, somewhere in the country.  

But in a country this large – some 340 million people, spread out over 50 states – there are a lot of different ways to vote, so there are bound to be different ways to commit vote fraud. 

Before we go on, we should dismiss the claim that there is no statistically significant vote fraud in America.  According to federal statistics, there are at least 11 million crimes reported every year – that's an array of homicides, robberies, auto theft, muggings, kidnappings, forgeries, embezzlements, arsons, rapes, assaults, and more. And that’s just the number that are reported. 

Virtually every activity in America, either commercial or non-commercial, is plagued with crime, often enough that businesses have whole subsets of their organizations devoted to combatting it.   

Warehouses have security cameras; stores add anti-theft devices to merchandise, banks lock up currency in safes, and most of the above employ security guards. Shoplifters steal ingredients from grocery stores, purses from dress shops, power tools from hardware stores. 

And every level of government employs policemen and sheriffs, prosecutors and judges, courtrooms and prisons, to process the multitude of criminals committing these crimes. 

Eleven million reported crimes per year – many of them over a leather jacket, a........

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