Conservative News Sites Fuel Voter Fraud Misinformation

In the final stretch of the 2020 campaign, right-leaning news sites with millions of readers have published dozens of false or misleading headlines and articles that effectively back unsubstantiated claims by President Donald Trump and his allies that mail-in ballots threaten the integrity of the election.

Another right-wing site, Daily Wire, posted a Sept. 24 article about ballots in Pennsylvania under the headline “FEDS: Military Ballots Discarded in ‘Troubling’ Discovery. All Opened Ballots Were Cast for Trump.” Headlines on the same issue in The Washington Times were similar: “Feds Investigating Discarded Mail-in Ballots Cast for Trump in Pennsylvania” and “FBI Downplays Election Fraud as Suspected Ballot Issues Found in Pennsylvania, Texas.

In August, The New York Post published an article that relied on one anonymous source, identified as a Democratic operative, who claimed that he had engaged in voter fraud for decades. The Blaze, Breitbart, Daily Caller, FoxNews.com and The Washington Examiner posted their own versions of the article. It was also promoted by Donald Trump Jr.

That’s true even though specific totals vary depending on the source. Among the billions of votes cast from 2000 to 2012, there were 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud, according to an investigation conducted at Arizona State University’s journalism school. Election experts have calculated that, in a 20-year period, fraud involving mailed ballots has affected 0.00006% of individual votes, or one case per state every six or seven years.

Voting by mail under normal circumstances does not appear to give either major party an advantage, according to a study this spring by Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research. But many conservative outlets have promoted the idea that fraud involving mailed ballots could tip the scales in favor of Democrats.

Yahoo News site fuels equally misinformative voter fraud news.

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