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Yes, There Was Voter Fraud in Florida in 2020
Bottom Line: Two of my big frustrations in life are people who don’t know things but say stuff and intellectual dishonesty. With Florida’s new election integrity law now being challenged before federal Judge Mark Walker, both of my frustrations are prominently being displayed. Among the many false statements being advanced by groups attempting to strike down Florida’s new election law was this from Gene Sterns of All Voters Vote. Quoting... We had no election fraud in Florida, or for that matter anywhere, but certainly not in Florida. With demonstrably false statements like that being reported across the state I thought it’d be a good time to state the facts. Starting with this one. Yes, there was voter fraud in Florida in 2020...and lots of other states too.
The Heritage Foundation’s Voter Fraud Database provides a dynamic view of successfully prosecuted voter fraud cases. Because the legal process takes time, it often takes up to two years to have a full grasp of the scope of successfully prosecuted voter cases. That’s to say we still don’t know the full extent of successfully prosecuted voter fraud cases from 2020, but we do know about many. Here’s the scorecard of legal determinations of voter fraud in 2021 – mostly stemming from the 2020 election cycle.
- 20 successfully prosecuted cases of voter fraud across 12 states
- 2 in Florida
- 2 elections overturned – 1 in Florida
So yes, there was a criminal conviction for voter fraud in Florida stemming from the 2020 cycle. Separately, there was a 2020 election result overturned in Eatonville due to voter fraud. What’s more, is what I’ve recently covered at length. The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s finding of 156 pending voter fraud cases in Florida, which have been officially referred to state prosecutors but as of now unpursued by them. While we don’t know how many of those would result in convictions, it stands to reason that if there’s enough evidence of voter fraud that they were officially referred to prosecutors, many of them would result in convictions if tried. There are two sides to stories and one side to facts. There was voter fraud in Florida and across the country in 2020 resulting in numerous criminal convictions and multiple elections being overturned. It’s also a fact that there are far more cases that haven’t been tried by state prosecutors, which should be. As interest groups are currently fighting to attempt to keep status quo voter fraud alive in Florida, news media would be best served investigating and pressuring prosecutors to pursue the pending voter fraud cases in the state, as opposed to serving as a mouthpiece for demonstrably false lies about the absence of voter fraud in our state.