Legitimate Instances of Voter Fraud and Obvious Election Errors

[DabbingSanta]

Figured I should start a thread where I can collect instances of suspicious voting behavior which would suggest a certification error or fraud.

I'll start with a couple of my own I have noticed over the years (reading threads here!).  

Feel free to add to this.

1) Loving County, Texas

In 2000, only 71 people lived in the county, but 212 were registered to vote in the 2000 presidential election. Bush won the county with 124 votes!  This was said to be have been investigated by "Texas rangers" in a Odessa American newspaper article published in February 2001, but I can't find much else on the subject.  Only 80 people cast their ballots in the 2004 presidential election.

The county was also profiled in a Texas Monthly article back in 1997.  There, it was alleged by locals that voter fraud was a widespread issue in the county, especially back in the 1940s and 1950s.

2) Newton County, Arkansas

In the 2008 presidential election, Socialism and Liberation candidate Gloria La Riva "won" a precinct in this county.  The results were certified by the Arkansas Secretary of State.  In reality, this was certainly a tabulation error, and John McCain who got "0 votes" actually won the precinct.

Here are the results.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Toombs County, GA probably undercounted the 1988 Dukakis vote.
Tyler County, WV probably undercounted the 1996 Dole vote.

[MarkD]

In the Massachusetts Sec. of State's website, they have election results broken down to the precinct level for all elections going back to 1970. They have an obvious tabulation error for the presidential election of 2012. In one of the six precincts for Easton, Mass. (Bristol County), they report 633 votes for Jill Stein, 487 votes for Mitt Romney, 15 votes for Barack Obama, and 4 votes for Gary Johnson. The same precinct, in 2008, cast 671 votes for Obama, 651 for McCain, 10 for Nader, 6 for Barr, 1 for McKinney, and 1 for Castle. That precinct, in 2016, cast 640 votes for Clinton, 505 votes for Trump, 59 votes for Johnson, 12 votes for Stein, and 2 votes for McMullin. The report for 2012 is an obvious error, in which they probably have Stein's, Johnson's, and Obama's numbers mixed up with one another. 487 votes for Romney is believable, but undoubtedly they should have 633 in Obama's column, 15 in Johnson's column, and 4 in Stein's column.

[Alcibiades]

I believe what happened in Loving County in 2000 was probably actually legal, a result of people taking advantage of a Texas law allowing them to vote in any county in which they own property. The main form of entertainment (and employment) in tiny Loving is the local families feuding over the county offices, and they enlist outsiders using the above mechanism to vote for them (who then also obviously have to vote for President in the same location). But there’s certainly a fair bit of dodgy stuff which goes on out there.

[Sol]

IIRC some of the illegal vote rigging in Bladen County had been going for a while (possibly under the D banner? I forget) and also in portions of Robeson.

[Sailor Haumea]

Figured I should start a thread where I can collect instances of suspicious voting behavior which would suggest a certification error or fraud.

I'll start with a couple of my own I have noticed over the years (reading threads here!).  

Feel free to add to this.

1) Loving County, Texas

In 2000, only 71 people lived in the county, but 212 were registered to vote in the 2000 presidential election. Bush won the county with 124 votes!  This was said to be have been investigated by "Texas rangers" in a Odessa American newspaper article published in February 2001, but I can't find much else on the subject.  Only 80 people cast their ballots in the 2004 presidential election.

The county was also profiled in a Texas Monthly article back in 1997.  There, it was alleged by locals that voter fraud was a widespread issue in the county, especially back in the 1940s and 1950s.

2) Newton County, Arkansas

In the 2008 presidential election, Socialism and Liberation candidate Gloria La Riva "won" a precinct in this county.  The results were certified by the Arkansas Secretary of State.  In reality, this was certainly a tabulation error, and John McCain who got "0 votes" actually won the precinct.

Here are the results.

The Newton County precinct isn't an error, it's just that everyone living there is part of a Buddhist retreat center called Katog Rit'hrod Mountain Retreat Center. It votes for left of center candidates consistently.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

I actually think Obama won the Newton County precinct we are discussing here by the way.
In addition, I will add that there is an overcount of 833 votes for Obama in 1 precinct in Faulkner County, Arkansas that year, and that Stewart County, Georgia probably overcounted the Bush Sr. vote in 1992.

[NYDem]

I've got one for the category of "Obvious Election Error," though it didn't change any significant result.

The 2018 NY Reform Party Lt. Gov. Primary has an obvious error in the certified results. According to them, Silwa received 100% of the 209 votes cast in Ulster County. In every other county in the state the other 2 candidates combined for at least 40% of the vote.

This isn't a Presidential Result but I thought it someone might find it interesting.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Manistee County, MI in the 1920 presidential election has got to be a tabulation error.