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Comment by sejje

5 hours ago

> find illegal voting over the past decades and they only found a handful of cases

They found hundreds of cases this year in Pennsylvania, from the 2020 election alone, with a lot more left to look at.

>They found hundreds of cases this year in Pennsylvania, from the 2020 election alone, with a lot more left to look at.

1. Source?

2. How much effort did they put into each case? Is it just "we did a join between the voter rolls and some other database, and got 200 people that didn't match", or did they actually do the fieldwork to confirm those cases can't possibly correspond to real people?

>hundreds of cases this year in Pennsylvania

This something like an order of magnitude lower than the error margin.

  • Florida elected George W by 437 votes in 2000.

    Al Franken won a senate seat by 312 votes in 2008

    A Maine House seat was won by 1 vote in 2024

    1 illegal vote is too many.

Even assuming the found "hundreds" there's over seven million votes in Pennsylvania.

Trump effectively poisoned the well against any meaningful bipartisan interest in election fraud through repeated endorsement of bad faith and ludicrous "investigative journalism" by his supporters in 2020.

So it basically does not matter what the heritage foundation did or did not find, or what other groups will find in 2026 and beyond. The entire country has made up their mind already. Thus is the price paid for Trump's first-order winner-take-all approach to everything.