# Trump Paid Me to Find Voter Fraud. Then He Lied After I Found 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen.  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Ken Block]] - Full Title:: Trump Paid Me to Find Voter Fraud. Then He Lied After I Found 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen. - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/01/02/trump-lies-voter-fraud-2020-impact-2024-election/72057016007/?utm_source=usatoday-the-short-list-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaselinegreeting&utm_term=Content%20List%20-%20Stacking%20-%20optimized&utm_content=usat-mclean-nletter03 ## Highlights > The transcripts show that the campaign found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of any election. That message was communicated directly to [White House chief of staff Mark Meadows](https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq69jyj2sc0we8kjex57s5)) > More important, claims of voter fraud made by others were verified as false, including proof of why those claims were disproven ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq6r5t85etbxvp4ahts54v)) > It’s part of a steady diet of innuendo, misrepresentations and outright lies when it comes to the issue of voter fraud ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq7dk0ffknpxsz0z3zst4z)) > The small amount of voter fraud I found was bipartisan, with about as many Republicans casting duplicate votes as Democrats ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq849rr7kjzypkbsf5m905)) > This is a crime of privilege: Those with two homes sometimes take two bites of the electoral apple. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq8pe1epy5zy74sftvj67j)) > There were also small numbers of deceased voters. Still, nothing emerged that could provide a solid basis for a legal challenge to an election result in any of the states we evaluated. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq8zhgn5ygv1vy8abpb6a2)) > Even if it could be shown that more fraudulent votes were cast in a state than the margin of victory in 2020, no one can determine for which candidate each fraudulent ballot was cast. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfq9jhrj2zg0x6j4asgwx87)) ##### Trump's claims of voter fraud have no foundation in the truth > But it is one thing to provide a rallying point for supporters and quite another to drag our election infrastructure and legal system into a foundationless set of false claims. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfqax9z04072qrrrg73pqyw)) > A better use of time, money and energy would be to address systemic weaknesses in our election systems – such as the distressing lack of national election infrastructure to enforce election integrity, destructive practices to our elections such as gerrymandering, and leveling the playing field so that our elections become fairer and more competitive. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfqbaw51ftc08gx3e88h234)) > If voter fraud had impacted the 2020 election, it would already have been proven. Maintaining the lies undermines faith in the foundation of our democracy. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkfqbjggx1bq1w5n04gzknzh))