{"id":1606795,"date":"2022-08-15T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606795"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:10:33","slug":"fact-check-have-only-trump-supporters-been-arrested-for-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-have-only-trump-supporters-been-arrested-for-election-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Have Only Trump Supporters Been Arrested For Election Fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-have-only-trump-supporters-been-arrested-for-election-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1209366841-scaled-e1660581354343.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doug.jorgensen.5\/posts\/pfbid0anLKnsYFmkNPrAJxwJahFc29HhcjenRDPDogU7XF2hjzJTj7sV5iviKDe1bgR3pWl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doug.jorgensen.5\/posts\/pfbid0anLKnsYFmkNPrAJxwJahFc29HhcjenRDPDogU7XF2hjzJTj7sV5iviKDe1bgR3pWl&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1660315259407000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2TW6CJ7Q7s-Ev5Phhs7ApL\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims supporters of former President Donald Trump are the only people who have been arrested for election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of both parties have been arrested for election fraud, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen through various means of election and voter fraud, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-allies-election-decertify.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Many of these claims have either been repeatedly debunked or presented without evidence, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/14\/we-have-reached-apex-election-fraud-debunking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p>A post shared on Facebook claims it is actually only Trump supporters who have been arrested for election fraud. \u201cThe only people who\u2019ve been arrested for election fraud are Trump supporters in Florida, Trump supporters in Wisconsin &#038; Trump supporters in Texas,\u201d reads the Aug. 2 post. \u201cEvery time Republicans claim an upcoming election is \u2018rigged\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s because they are trying to rig the election. Call out the lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim also went viral on Twitter, with one iteration <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DashDobrofsky\/status\/1554545785303207936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">receiving<\/a> over 5,000 retweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The only people who\u2019ve been arrested for election fraud are Trump supporters in Florida, Trump supporters in Wisconsin &#038; Trump supporters in Texas. Every time Republicans claim an upcoming election is \u2018rigged\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s because they are trying to rig the election. Call out the lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DashDobrofsky\/status\/1554545785303207936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Republicans and Democrats have been arrested for election fraud, according to news reports. Kelvin Bolton, a Biden voter, was arrested and charged with voter fraud last year after voting in prison, according to a June 2021 ProPublica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/florida-felonies-voter-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>. Michael \u201cOzzie\u201d Myers, a former Democratic Congressman and Philadelphia political operative, recently pled guilty to election fraud charges, including bribery, falsification of voting record and conspiring to illegaly vote, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edpa\/pr\/former-us-congressman-and-philadelphia-political-operative-pleads-guilty-election-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/john-malcolm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Malcolm<\/a>, the vice president of Heritage Foundation\u2019s Institute for Constitutional Government, said the Facebook claim was \u201cpreposterous.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/12\/02\/fact-check-video-technician-manipulating-voting-data-gwinnett-county-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Viral Video Falsely Claims To Show A Technician Manipulating Voting Data In Georgia)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it is certainly true that some Republican voters have been convicted of voter fraud, so have Democrats.\u201d Malcolm pointed Check Your Fact to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/voterfraud-print\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">database<\/a> operated by the Heritage Foundation that tracks cases of election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> in December 2021 that there were hundreds of election fraud cases around the country and stated they were \u201cbipartisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post\u00a0shared on Facebook claims supporters of former President Donald Trump are the only people who have been arrested for election fraud.Supporters of both parties have been arrested for election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}