1 gen 2023 anni - CNN: Does mail-in voting lead to "massive fraud"?

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Is there widespread fraud in voting by mail?
CLAIM
Trump used the debate to spread disinformation about mail-in voting and repeated many of the false claims that he has been making all year – including the lie that mail-in voting leads to massive fraud.

“They’re sending millions of ballots all over the country,” Trump said. He added: “This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen.” He later said mail-in voting is “a disaster” and claimed that “it’s a rigged election.”

CONCLUSION
Trump is lying. There is no widespread fraud in US elections. There are safeguards in place to prevent fraud. States will be dealing with a historic level of mail ballots, which poses a challenge, and there are isolated incidents of fraud. But there is no systematic vote-rigging, including with mail-in ballots.

EVIDENCE
CNN has repeatedly fact-checked these claims. Millions of Americans voted by mail in the 2016 election, and again during the 2020 primaries, and there has not been widespread fraud. Comprehensive studies of billions of ballots cast over many years indicate that the rate of voter fraud is less than 0.0001%.

Trump was specifically asked how voters should participate in the election. Trump said, “You do a solicited ballot and that’s OK, or you go and vote.” This means Trump gave his blessing to in-person voting or for people to request absentee ballots and then send those ballots back in the mail.

But this leaves out the nine states, plus the District of Columbia, where all registered voters will automatically get ballots in the mail. This is being done in Democratic-run and Republican-run states this year. Experts concede that this voting system is a bit riskier than systems where voters must proactively request absentee ballots. But even with those heightened risks, the fraud rate is still exceedingly tiny.

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