Election Integrity Group Says Tied Election Results Show Need for Ballot Security

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In 2023, there were 26 elections across the United States that resulted in a tie, with another seven being decided by one vote. Pennsylvania led the nation with seven tied elections.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) announced the 2023 data on March 25. PILF researchers reported that there have been 602 ties and 146 elections decided by a single vote since the foundation began collecting nationwide information in 2002.

โ€œThese elections illustrate that one illegal vote or error can affect the outcome of an election,โ€ the organization stated.

As part of its evidence, PILF highlighted a one-vote margin mayoral race in Wisconsin for which a court ordered a new election after discovering that at least two mail-in ballots were illegal. One ballot came from a person who had not asked for it, and another mail-in ballot came from a person residing in Illinois who was not registered to vote in Wisconsin.

In making his decision, the judge also cited three other mail-in ballot return envelopes that were accepted for counting without the required witness signatures. The violating envelopes were not noticed by those conducting the recount, according to the study report.

Other Elections Voided Over Illegal Votes

In another one-vote margin contest highlighted by PILF, the Louisiana Supreme Court voided the result of an election for sheriff and ordered a new election after it found that โ€œbeyond a doubtโ€ 11 illegal votes were cast and counted. The court declared that it was โ€œlegally impossibleโ€ to know what the true vote should have been.

According to PILF, the court found that, of the 11 illegal votes, two individuals had voted twice, four felons had voted, and five absentee ballots should not have been accepted.

โ€œOne vote makes a difference. Ties happen. Illegal votes, mistakes, and errors shouldnโ€™t determine the winner of an election,โ€ PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement accompanying the release of the report.

The nationwide statistics presented by PILF are only a portion of the occurrences of ties and elections decided by razor-thin margins in 21st century America.

Byย Steven Kovac

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