The subpoenas issued last summer sought all North Carolina voter registration records for eight years and actual ballots cast for five years in counties in the eastern half of the state.
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In a 2016 ruling rejecting Texas's stringent voter ID law, which state lawmakers had pitched as a way to stop voter fraud, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit found only two convictions for in-person voter fraud out of 20 million ballots cast in the years before the 2011 passage of the law.
Nineteen illegal votes, out of more than 4.5 million ballots cast in North Carolina that year, is minuscule.
In fact, if counties using punch cards had had the same rate of ballots on which no vote for president was officially recorded as counties using lever machines, there might have been 200,000 more ballots cast for president that year, roughly the margin of Al Gore's popular vote plurality this year.
In a separate study, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found 241 potentially fraudulent ballots out of 1 billion ballots cast over a 14-year period.
Even if all 300 instances were confirmed cases of actual voter fraud, they would make up a small portion of total ballots cast in that 12-year period.
The Central Election Commission declared that President Chen had 29,518 more votes than Lien Chan, the leader of the Nationalist Party, out of 13.25 million ballots cast, awarding another four-year term to the man whom mainland China has repeatedly labeled as dangerous and willing to risk war to achieve greater independence for this island.
Still, Mr. Maduro received fewer than six million votes, the lowest number of ballots cast for a winner in years.
