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2023-11-03 06:01:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: FDE1C457899CCFF184A17DE8A95B4D6C73A2B2A6E90A99B7CA73BAB41E1CD4A1
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Mail-in ballots are not at a greater risk of fraud than in-person voting. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-vote-by-mail-work-and-does-it-increase-election-fraud/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/08/fact-check-no-tie-between-mail-voting-and-election-fraud/8269630001/ Mail-in benefits outweigh the risks: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/low-rates-of-fraud-in-vote-by-mail-states-show-the-benefits-outweigh-the-risks/ There is no widespread voter fraud in the US, systemic or otherwise. https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-has-neither-systemic-voter-fraud-nor-voter-suppression https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/11/11/21560269/election-virtually-no-evidence-voter-fraud-nyt https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103619118 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/voter-fraud-investigators-find-no-systemic-problems-in-midterms https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/04/despite-gop-rhetoric-there-have-been-fewer-than-two-dozen-charged-cases-voter-fraud-since-election/ https://latino.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/LPPI-VRP-Voter-Fraud-res.pdf https://www.hoover.org/research/no-evidence-voter-fraud-guide-statistical-claims-about-2020-election https://reason.com/volokh/2020/09/09/the-persistent-myth-of-widespread-voter-fraud/
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