The seat was vacant following Roderick Wright's (D) resignation on September 22, 2014, after he was convicted in a perjury and
voting fraud case.
All
the voting fraud cases in US history involve paper.
Not exact matches
But first, note that the total number of identified voter
fraud cases in Kansas since 2000 is 97... out of literally millions of
votes cast.
A 51 - 49 % split would have the winner win by 250
votes, which is more than the 239 known
cases of
fraud.
Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter
fraud in the United States, like voter registration
fraud, the only kind of voter
fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter
fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and
votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented
cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter
fraud in the United States.
The
cases Abbott prosecuted represent a small fraction of the total
vote in the elections in which the
fraud happened.
There are statistics which show a very low number of reported voter
fraud cases, but at the same time such statistics are useless unless the
voting officials are focused on catching immigrants
voting illegally.
«Ultimately, their smear campaign allowed them to defeat the last Republican who
voted for marriage equality and gun safety, replacing him with Senator - elect Panepinto, who was convicted of election
fraud a few years ago,» the memo says, referring to a 13 - year - old
case.
There have been
cases of electoral
fraud with postal
votes in the UK (including at the 2004 European and local government elections in Birmingham).
The Electoral Commission found that out of nearly 45 million
votes cast in the local and General Election in 2017, there were only 28
cases of alleged voter
fraud.