Why does the MSM continue to use the term "no evidence of wide-spread voter fraud"?

[PaulRevere08]

FFS, there is ZERO evidence of voter fraud anywhere except for the occasional honest mistake or GOP knucklehead.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Cause the M$M f***ing sucks ...

I've been railing about this all along.

SO FREAKING ANNOYING ...

[secondwind]

2. I find it acceptable... There are bigger things to get all stirred up about.

[johnp3907]

3. Yeah, just "no voter fraud" would do it.

[meadowlander]

4. Lawyers.

They're hedging their bets against there being one or two legit cases.

[drray23]

5. because there were sporadic cases of voter fraud.

For example in PA, they found two cases of republicans trying to vote twice. In every election you will find a few isolated cases. Its not widespread so it wont change the results.
Saying there was zero fraud would be inacurate.

[DrToast]

6. Agree

[SharonAnn]

7. Exactly!

[PaulRevere08]

14. Fair enough. I would think that .000000287 would be close enough to zero

to say it, perhaps "Virtually zero evidence of any fraud" would be a better choice of words.

[joshcryer]

16. Exactly, there will always be people doing stupid crap.

Usually Republicans. Almost always Republicans, actually. They have no regard for the system because they always think winning at any cost is better than anything.

[tblue37]

8. Because cut and paste phrasing is easier and faster than for ng up with your own words.

Besides, they want to remain "neutral" to avoid offending some of their readers.

[Stallion]

9. Correct Answer: "No Evidence" is a Legal Term Entitling Party to Summary Judgment

it means although a party might present "evidence" it is insufficient legally for relief

[KWR65]

10. No, I'm sure there is some voter fraud.

There are always some people that double vote. What that means is that there wasn't tens of thousands of ballots fraudulently submitted and counted by the States.

[maxsolomon]

11. The "MSM" aren't dumb enough to make a binary, blanket statement like

"There was no voter fraud". The RWNM would pounce on that like a hobo on a ham sandwich.

It would be accurate to say "there was INCIDENTAL voter fraud, in keeping with all past elections", though.

[Hoyt]

12. Suppose same reason they didn't say there was no evidence of rigged election in 2016,

because the losing side tends to believe the ballots were stuffed (or in modern times, votes were flipped).

I remember it as far back as the 1960s, but it goes further back than that.




The Box 13 scandal was an event which occurred in Alice, Texas during the Senate election of 1948.[1] When Lyndon B. Johnson was losing the election to Coke Stevenson. Six days after polls had closed, 202 additional ballots were found in Precinct 13, which were in Johnson's favor. Stevenson was ahead of Johnson during the run-off and still ahead by midday, but after the discovery of the additional ballots, 200 additional votes for Johnson were found, leading to his victory

[Stallion]

13. Landslide Lyndon

[uponit7771]

15. K&R, nearly 160 million people voted. That's bigger than most countries whole populations of course

... we expect the screw up but the fact there are so few is gob smacking