Why Dead Voters Won’t Tip the Presidential Election



Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Experts say that Trump’s claim that dead voters will sway the election is unlikely.

While Donald Trump has raised the specter of voter fraud involving the identities of dead voters on Nov. 8, elections experts say such fears are based in more fantasy than fact, NBC News reported.

“It is possible to have some votes stolen in this way, but it’s not possible to be done on a wide scale,” said Dick Simpson, a University of Illinois-Chicago political science professor, who said there are many safeguards in place to prevent such fraud.

And Simpson would know — he’s also a former Chicago alderman.

“The voting process is decentralized from state to state,” he said. “There’s no one button you can push to rig an election” and have thousands of votes be cast by dead people.

President Barack Obama spoke at the White House on Oct. 18, 2016, in part about Donald Trump’s claims that the election is rigged. “Democracy, by definition, works by consent not by force,” Obama said. “I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place. It’s unprecedented. It happens to be based on no facts.” (Published Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016)

Published at 10:40 PM PDT on Oct 18, 2016

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