Are American elections free and fair?

[historia]

According to Pew, the percentage of Americans expressing confidence that our elections will be run well has dropped from four years ago (2018), especially among voters who support Republican candidates (-30%).

Question for debate: Are elections in the United States free and fair?

[boatsnguitars]

According to Pew, the percentage of Americans expressing confidence that our elections will be run well has dropped from four years ago (2018), especially among voters who support Republican candidates (-30%).

Question for debate: Are elections in the United States free and fair?

Yes. Just "yes".

There have been instances of voter fraud that were caught and prosecuted, but international watch groups that track this are clear: we have free and fair elections.

It's time to focus our energy on other things.

[The Barbarian]

When the last republican candidate is loser who always blames others for his failures, why is it surprising that some of his followers believe him?

[AgnosticBoy]

[Diogenes]

Yes, the elections [the actual voting] are 'free and fair.'
False claims by the loser of an election with ZERO evidence, claims that have been dismissed by 63 courts, does not make this non issue a legitimate issue. Over and over again every legitimate (as well as some biased investigations) inquiry has found no fraud, except statistically insignificant instances, that could have changed the result of the election. The number of actual fraudulent votes is such a tiny percentage it is hard to appreciate as a percentage, but it's 1 in every 52,?631 votes.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exhau ... e-lives-on

[boatsnguitars]

[fredonly]

[Purple Knight]

[Replying to fredonly in post #136]

I think it's fair to ask for evidence of the negative when everyone involved has an interest in cheating. A great example is bodybuilding contests. Enter one, and you will be presumed to be taking steroids and asked to prove you did not. This works well and almost nobody objects.

[AgnosticBoy]

[fredonly]

[marke]

According to Pew, the percentage of Americans expressing confidence that our elections will be run well has dropped from four years ago (2018), especially among voters who support Republican candidates (-30%).

Question for debate: Are elections in the United States free and fair?

Elections have become corrupted to a much greater extent since the introduction of voting machines that can be corrupted and which are not allowed by law to be examined after elections. Elections are also corrupted by election officials getting away with stuffing voting registries with the names of illegitimate voters as has been the case in most elections of the last two decades. After the 2020 election LA County alone removed the names of more than 1 million illegitimate voters from its bloated rolls, and we wonder how Biden managed to get so many millions of votes more than the more popular Obama ever got.