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Elections commissioners: No sign of voter fraud in Niagara in years | Local News

Elections commissioners: No sign of voter fraud in Niagara in years | Local News

Niagara County's two election commissioners — one Democrat and one Republican — say they have no record of proven voter fraud in the county in their combined decades of experience, with neither recalling a single verified instance of a non-citizen or deceased person voting. Both commissioners cited multiple existing safeguards, including signed affidavits during voter registration, signature verification for absentee ballots, regular purging of deceased voters from rolls, and bipartisan oversight at all polling locations. Their comments come as President Trump continues to push unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud and advocates for the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote. Federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, and an analysis by the American Immigration Council found that only 47 documented cases of non-citizen voting occurred out of more than a billion votes cast over the past four years.

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