June 26, 2026 12:35 PM UTC

All Together Now: It's ALWAYS a Republican

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• by: Colorado Pols

Despite what Donald Trump and Tina Peters would have you believe, verifiable examples of voter fraud are exceedingly rare in the United States.

What Philip Bump wrote for The Washington Post after the 2016 election remains true today:

There wasn’t evidence of widespread voter fraud before the election. There isn’t evidence of widespread voter fraud afterward, either. In fact, there’s not evidence of even modest voter fraud.

The Post looked into Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2016 election and found only four clear examples. The Associated Press undertook an exhaustive look into Trump’s fraud claims from 2020 and managed to find 475 potential cases out of millions of votes cast. None of this has convinced Trump, of course, who is hijacking a bipartisan housing bill in Congress in a lost-cause effort to force the Senate to pass an elections overhaul bill called the “SAVE America Act” that he hopes will mitigate losses from what is expected to be a Blue Wave election year.

The irony here, as we’ve pointed out repeatedly over the years, is that actual cases of voter fraud are almost always perpetrated by Republicans. This week we have two more examples.

First, as The Associated Press reports from South Dakota:

An incumbent South Dakota legislative leader is facing two felony counts, accused of falsifying signatures to put candidates forward for state Republican Party positions without them knowing.

Republican state Sen. Thomas Pischke of Dell Rapids represents a deep red district outside Sioux Falls and is seeking a third term in November. He faces two felony counts of knowingly submitting a falsified or forged document.

Pischke turned himself in to the Minnehaha County Jail on Tuesday and was released on a promise to appear for all future court dates, the sheriff’s office said. An initial hearing is set for July 7.

Also this week, we learned that the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia admitted publicly to committing voter fraud as part of a typical Republican rationalization that he was merely trying to “test the system.” From Alternet:

A candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump claimed that he tried to commit voter fraud, but did not provide any evidence that such fraud is an actual issue.

Georgia State Sen. Greg Dolezal, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, told the Charlie Kirk Show in a February broadcast only recently discovered that he and “a number of friends” submitted fraudulent mail-in ballot applications that included forms signed by children. Their goal was to prove that they received ballots in return to prove that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud.

Notably, Dolezal did not furnish any evidence to verify his claims.

We aren’t selectively picking out examples of Republicans getting caught committing voter fraud. Either Democrats aren’t committing voter fraud at the same frequency as Republicans or they aren’t getting caught; based on the rarity of voter fraud in general, it’s almost certainly the former.

Voter fraud is incredibly uncommon in the United States, but when it does happen, it’s almost always committed by a Republican.