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Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020

Have any recent US election results been overturned because of election fraud?

Michael Higgins, Gigafact
yes

In a compilation of nearly 1,300 voter fraud cases between 1992 to 2020, 21 election results were reversed because of the fraud. The only such contest involving a federal office occurred in 2018, when workers for a Republican candidate for Congress from North Carolina were charged with illegally collecting absentee ballots. The state called a new election in 2019.

In two other instances, misuse of absentee ballots contributed to the reversal of a contest's results, including an Alabama city council race and a West Virginia scheme led by the county sheriff and the county clerk. The database tracking the fraud cases is maintained by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank.

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