voter fraud voter fraud voter fraud Donald Trump continues to blame his 2020 election loss on voter fraud to be clear there was no widespread fraud or cheating and Joe Biden won both the Electoral College and popular vote does fraud ever caused problems in US elections not really and here’s why for voter fraud to change an election experts say a lot of people would have to participate risking fines prosecution and prison time and everyone would have to keep quiet to pull off such a massive conspiracy there are a lot of safeguards in place to prevent even small scale fraud for male voting off off record every ballot so voters can’t request more than one those ballots are then loged when they returned checked against the voter registration database and often include the voter’s signature officials also review voter records after the election is over if they think something is off they can refer potential fraud cases for further investigation while there are some limited cases of fraud it typically involves a single person casting two or more ballots but it isn’t a widespread or coordinated problem what election questions do you have leave us a comment below