Claude Sonnet 5Oct 3114 citations
Is voter fraud a problem in the US?
Short answer: No, not as a widespread or systemic problem — but it's not literally zero, either.
Decades of research, data from both nonpartisan and conservative sources, and numerous court/government investigations consistently find that voter fraud occurs, but at an extremely small scale that doesn't affect election outcomes.
What the data shows
Even conservative-leaning tallies find tiny n