MAGA Election Fraud Accusations Already Growing: Allegations and Conspiracy Theories Investigated

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MAGA’s election rigging allegations are once again on the rise

• “The Big Lie” continues

The ex-POTUS’ claims of “fraud” began back in April. While addressing the crowd at his Mar-a-Lago at a Palm Beach resort earlier this year, Trump made a series of unsubstantiated claims that echo those made during the 2020 presidential campaign. At the “Border 9/11 Gala,” he also repeated the “Big Lie” of 2020, claiming that the Biden campaign “exploited COVID last time” to win. “We are going to take back our country. We We will be watching the deception very closely,” he said during the April event.

“I’ll tell you what, if it was just by vote, they could cancel this election. We will win this election right now,” he added. Delving further into the baseless claims, he said: “We have a lot more votes than they have, but we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful.”

• Widespread non-citizen voting

Although non-citizens are barred from voting in federal elections, Trump and his supporters, including high-ranking MAGA officials, as Elon Musk, got on the conspiracy theory train a few months before the election. Earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson said without evidence: “We all know – intuitively – that there are a lot of illegal voters in federal elections. But it’s not something that’s easy to prove.”

Additionally, during a presidential debate with Kamala Harris, Trump falsely claimed that Democrats are bringing immigrants into the US to earn illegal votes. “They don’t even speak English. They practically do not even know in which country they are. And these people are trying to get them to vote, that’s why they’re letting them into our country,” the Republican candidate claimed.

The Republican National Committee has even filed lawsuits in some states, implying that voter rolls are unregulated and may be made up of non-citizens.

According to The Guardian, Gateway Pundit, a site notorious for reporting on election misinformation, has also come forward with claims of fraud, along with Trump and the right-wing media, accusing the Democratic Party of getting votes through US foreign nationals. On September 23, Trump took to his Truth Social account to make serious allegations against a rival political party of election fraud.

“Democrats talk about how they are working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living abroad. In fact, they are getting ready to COUNT! They are going to use UOCAVA to get ballots, a program that mails ballots overseas without any citizenship verification or proof of infinity. (Foreign interference?),” the former president was outraged on the network.

Unlike non-citizen voting, which is a federal offense, it is actually legal. The Uniform and Abroad Voting Act entitles nearly 3 million people living overseas, including US military personnel and their families, to vote.

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In contrast, Democrats presented a relatively larger number of 9 million Americans living abroad as eligible to vote, prompting speculation of registration fraud and foreign interference in the election. The Center for Informed Public under the name of University of Washington debunked rumors, arguing that they “combine factual allegations with unsubstantiated allegations and omit key context regarding election security measures that would have prevented illegal voting (as alleged) from affecting election results.” The report also found that the DNC memo “made a false statement” about the 9 million mark estimate. “Government the ratings of eligible UOCAVA voters are significantly lower. Rumors are using this discrepancy as evidence to claim that Democrats plan to illegally register large numbers of ineligible or non-citizen voters,” the factual analysis explains.

• Unaccompanied Ballots in Minnesota

According to a Hennepin County official, a county courier vehicle was pictured earlier in October outside Edina City Hall with its trunk open and ballots left unattended while ballots were being delivered.

The news that emerged led many on X to question the “integrity of the election” this year, linking the image to the same serious allegations as in 2020. However, the city of Edina’s official Twitter account shut down those claims, confirming online: “The vehicle in the photo is a Hennepin County courier that came to pick up Edina absentee tickets this morning. In his car are ballots he picked up from other towns before coming to Edina. According to Daniel Rogan, Hennepin County Auditor, all transfer documents were received sealed and all pending ballots were counted by Hennepin County.”

In a subsequent response to questions from netizens, the same spokesperson responded with a link to surveillance video that supports their explanation: “It was a Hennepin County Courier. I don’t know the name of the company. Surveillance footage from the parking lot shows one person exiting the vehicle and then returning with Edina’s gear boxes on a cart. These cases were loaded into the van along with the ones that were photographed. City officials have released surveillance footage from the parking lot at the time that shows the ballots in the county’s courier truck were not tampered with when they were left unattended.”

In light of a “lapse in protocol” that “should not have happened and is unacceptable,” officials later revealed that the driver responsible for inciting the crowd was fired after the incident, Fox 9 reported.

The previously reported incident is a perfect segue into people’s fear that ballots will be tampered with and tampered with in favor of Democrats. User X wrote on October 18: “PREDICTION: The Democrats are going to steal this election just like the last. MILLIONS of fake ballots have already been printed and distributed to drop-off centers in every state. Democrats don’t even care, if you notice, at this point. They’re just going to unload TRAYS of ballots and run them through the machines, even in front of the public, and then declare Kamala the winner no matter what. This is the plan.” The viral post has now garnered more than 4 million views.

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The continued incendiary attacks eventually forced voting machine manufacturers, including Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, to seek legal help by filing lawsuits against media outlets making baseless claims. One such lawsuit resulted in Fox News paying $787.5 million.

• “Pennsylvania Cheats”

Among the newly planted seeds of the same rhetoric, Trump took to his Truth Social platform and launched a scathing attack: “pennsylvania it is fraud and being caught on a scale rarely seen before. REPORT THE FRAUD TO THE AUTHORITIES. Law enforcement must act NOW!” The key battleground has seen a hotly contested, high-stakes race, with both presidential candidates reportedly tied.

In addition, the former president cited “several bad places in Pennsylvania,” including York County, which allegedly received “THOUSANDS of potentially fraudulent voter registration forms and third-party mail-in ballot applications.”

His list continued with Lancaster County as his next target for being “caught with 2,600 fake ballots and forms.”

The whole disaster erupted without comparison to Trump the campaign sued Bucks County for discouraging pro-Trump voters from applying for mail-in ballots, Time reported.

In the face of Trump’s scrutiny, state officials have assured that they are indeed working to prevent election fraud. “In this case, the system is working,” said Tammy Patrick of the National Association of Election Officials. “…the questionable registration applications submitted were isolated and are being investigated.”

Bucks County officials responded to the GOP accusations, which have been widely shared on social media and amplified by pro-Trump influencers such as Elon Musk. Although local officials acknowledged the “misunderstanding” earlier, they spoke out against it election fraud claims and called them wildly exaggerated.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) wrote in response to X: “Let’s remember, in 2020, Donald Trump attacked our election again and again. Now he’s trying to use the same game to foment chaos, but listen to me: we will once again have free and fair, safe and secure elections — and the will of the people will be respected.”