Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections or any relatively recent election.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

The Left would pretend voter fraud is no big deal.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

You know, when you have a million plus names on the rolls, people who aren't voting or are inactive, dead, people who have moved away, that's a massive pool of potential voter fraud opportunities for those who want to be able to steal elections.

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

This is not the first time. We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

Thank God for paper ballots.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

Voter fraud happens on both sides of the aisle. And if nothing else, I'm glad Democrats are acknowledging that it exists.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

Mandated mail-in voting and other extreme changes to the 2020 election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic could further undermine public confidence in the American electoral system.

It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.