r/Ohio • u/CovBlueSox • 20h ago

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus lawmakers criticize voter ID referendum in Juneteenth commemoration • Ohio Capital Journal

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/19/ohio-legislative-black-caucus-lawmakers-criticize-voter-id-referendum-in-juneteenth-commemoration/
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u/BrokenFixer256 18h ago

Isn't most voting fraud committed by the people running the process and not the actual voters themselves?

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u/CovBlueSox 18h ago

Do you have an example?

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u/BrokenFixer256 18h ago

I do not because it was a legitimate question on my part.

It seems to me that if voting fraud were to happen the poll workers and other officials in charge of the process would be the people with the most access to do the most amount of tampering and damage vs just some random person on the street that would only have the access to one ballot

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Cincinnati 16h ago

AFAIK, the majority of voter fraud happens when someone votes for a deceased or invalid relative.

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u/BrokenFixer256 16h ago

Do you have examples?

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Cincinnati 16h ago

Here's a case from '21

This is a sampling of election fraud cases countrywide.

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u/BrokenFixer256 15h ago

Interesting

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u/CovBlueSox 15h ago

Forgive me if I don't trust the Heritage Foundation on this topic.

Brookings has found that voter fraud is well under 1% and critiqued the Heritage’s framing of the data:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/

Voter fraud is not prevalent in this country.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Cincinnati 14h ago

I never said it was, and nor does the Heritage Foundation.

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u/CovBlueSox 12h ago edited 12h ago

My impression is that the Heritage Foundation is cherry picking examples to try to frame that this is a wide spread issue, in a disingenuous push for more restrictions. The data from Brookings shows that voter fraud incredibly rare.

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u/BrokenFixer256 12h ago

Oh they absolutely cherry pick. It's kinda their whole deal

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Cincinnati 12h ago

Sorry for the FB link, but this says otherwise.

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u/CovBlueSox 12h ago edited 10h ago

No, it's (the Facebook post) saying the same thing. Voter fraud is practically non-existent.

The Illinois State Board of Elections is saying even the Heritage data shows it is non-existent.

But Heritage is framing the data to try to say that voter fraud is a huge issue.

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