Why Donald Trump’s Claimed Widespread Voter Fraud is False

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Last night’s debate was by far the most civil of the three presidential debates, with moderator Chris Wallace keeping the candidates focused on issues and within their agreed-upon time constraints. Mr. Trump kept his attacks on Mrs. Clinton to issues and not her health or her husband’s extramarital activities.

Full video of the final debate:

Mr. Trump’s extraordinary assertion that he may not accept the results of the Nov. 8 election. This is unprecedented in American political history.
Never before has a presidential candidate sought to discredit the results of an election before it took place.

Donald Trump is warning of election fraud, but GOP officials oversee process in most battleground states

Even some of Mr. Trump’s staunchest allies took him to task for this answer. Laura Ingraham, the conservative talk radio host, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Trump “should have said he would accept the results of the election. There is no other option unless we’re in a recount again.”

No matter what else was said during this debate, expect the takeaway from the media – and also pushed by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign – to be Mr. Trump’s foray into discrediting the entire American political system.

When questioning the integrity of the election and suggesting he might not accept the result come Nov. 9, Donald Trump claimed widespread voter fraud.

A close look at the transcript finds the Republican nominee specifically putting that figure on Pew.

“If you look at your voter rolls, you will see millions of people that are registered to vote — millions, this isn’t coming from me — this is coming from Pew report and other places — millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn’t be registered to vote,” he said.

Over the last several weeks, Trump has been referencing this 2012 Pew report to back up his claims the election could be “rigged” thanks to those “millions” registered to vote who shouldn’t be.

It’s titled “Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient: Evidence That America’s Voter Registration System Needs an Upgrade.”

Page one of the 12-page report has several bullet points:

Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.
More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters.
Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.
FactCheck.org examined the report and found Trump has been citing it inaccurately on the campaign trail.

“The report did not allege the 1.8 million deceased people actually voted. Rather, Pew said that it is evidence of the need to upgrade voter registration systems,” the organization wrote.

One thing that didn’t come up during the debate is something we wrote about this week: GOP officials oversee voting in most of the states.

By Christina Bellantoni I LA Times

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