A new Reuters analysis of federal court data has shown that US President Donald Trump's claims that America is a hotbed of voting fraud are overstated.
He has portrayed noncitizen voting as part of a broad Democratic Party conspiracy to dilute Republican power. He has called for elections to be nationalized due to the danger of noncitizens casting ballots. And he has described illegal voting by noncitizens as so widespread that “cheating is rampant in our elections.”
Trump has offered little evidence for his allegations of widespread fraud, however, including his claim in a primetime speech on Thursday that 278,000 noncitizens are registered to vote.
Click the link below to read the full report or watch here as investigative reporter Peter Eisler reveals how the analysis of federal data only found a small number of inadvertent violations.
