According to this story, there really were fraudulent votes in the 2016 election. No, not millions but certainly hundreds, maybe thousands. In the case of North Carolina, about 500 fraudulent votes have been discovered. Of course, since Trump's margin in the state was over 100,000 votes, it made no difference. However, sometimes 500 votes make all the difference.
In 2000, George W Bush won the presidency by 537 votes in Florida.
In 2004, Christine Gregoire lost with the initial count (by 261 votes) and lost again in the mandatory recount (by 42 votes). However, she was declared the winner of the Washington gubernatorial race after a SECOND recount put her 129 votes ahead of Dino Rossi.
In 2008, Al Franken defeated incumbent Norm Colemen and secured a 60 seat supermajority in the United States Senate by 255 votes. These 255 votes allowed for the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
It is a virtual certainty that there is voter fraud in every election and that, in the vast majority of cases, it makes no difference because of the margin. However, in some cases, the payoff can be huge. Was there fraud in the examples given? Perhaps. Whether there was or wasn't, the case of North Carolina shows that fraud does occur and is large enough to change the outcome in close elections. This is why making sure that the people who vote are allowed to vote and don't vote multiple times is important. One can argue about how to keep fraud out of voting but everyone ought to agree that it should be done.
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