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Electoral fraud, illegal interference with the process of an election Vote buying , when a political party or candidate distributes money to a voter with the expectation that they will vote for them Voter impersonation , when an eligible voter votes more than once or a non-eligible voter votes under the name of an eligible one
People may distribute false or misleading information in order to affect the outcome of an election. [3] For example, in the Chilean presidential election of 1970, the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency used "black propaganda"—materials purporting to be from various political parties—to sow discord between members of a coalition ...
Some states mark ballots with identifying numbers in certain circumstances. For example, an election worker in Maine will write a number on a ballot only if it is challenged, [433] and election workers in North Carolina write identifying numbers on early in-person and mail-in ballots, which allows ballots to be retrieved and not counted if ...
According to Ballotpedia, any illegal interference with the process of an election constitutes as "voter fraud." These are the different types of voter fraud they list:
This year, Trump and his campaign have cited more than a dozen examples of so-called election interference activities by Americans to claim the coming election is being unfairly manipulated.
Election subversion can involve a range of measures to change the outcome of a vote, including voter suppression, election denial, disinformation, intimidation and other legal or illegal attempts to not count or disqualify certain votes.
Pennsylvania: Ballot video deemed fake, Russian interference. A viral video of mail-in ballots being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a key battleground suburb, was created and amplified ...
In political science, economic voting is a theoretical perspective which argues that voter behavior is heavily influenced by the economic conditions in their country at the time of the election. According to the classical form of this perspective, voters tend to vote more in favor of the incumbent candidate and party when the economy is doing ...