number of people in us convicted of voter fraud
The official total had Thompson up by only five thousand votes. The US Department of Justice found at least 100,000 fraudulent votes (over 10% of Chicagoâs vote). Sixty-three people were convicted of voter fraud. The feds broke it open because a campaign worker complained that he didnât get his promised city job after helping with the fraud.
Under Republican President George W. Bush, the U.S. Justice Department searched for voter fraud. But in the first three years of the program, just 26 people were convicted or pled guilty to illegal registration or voting. Out of 197,056,035 votes cast in the two federal elections held during that period, the rate of voter fraud was a miniscule 0.00000132 percent! No state considering or passing restrictive voter identification laws has documented an actual problem with voter fraud.