Ben Shapiro: “There is no evidence of gigantic number voter fraud in the United States”
Shapiro: “Just on an evidentiary basis, the notion that tens of thousands of Americans every election cycle are voting fraudulently, that evidence does not exist”
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From the April 22, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): OK. So when she says the Democrats are going to do it anyway, maybe and maybe not. But just as with the judicial filibuster, you take that tool out of the sheath, it is not going back on the sheath. Democrats will certainly do it if they don't have to restore the filibuster, obviously. And this goes to, again, part of the problem with the way that our politics is done. I agree — voter fraud is not only a problem, it could be a major problem if we do not actually put in place restrictions. Now voting illegally in the United States is a federal crime. It is in fact a federal crime. And there is no evidence of gigantic number voter fraud in the United States. Now you can say that it's happening, we just haven't detected it. That's fair, maybe. But just on an evidentiary basis, the notion that tens of thousands of Americans every election cycle are voting fraudulently, that evidence does not exist.
Again, that doesn't mean that it's not out that — maybe it's there and we haven't found it yet, or maybe you think that you've seen a sign of it, but it hasn't been fully evidenced yet. We do have statistics on the number of convictions for voter fraud in the United States since 1982. It's kept up by the Heritage Foundation. And this is a map of where voter fraud has taken place, documented voter fraud in the United States since 1982. And what you will notice here is that the scale goes from zero cases of documented voter fraud in states like Oklahoma and Louisiana and South Carolina to the upper end of this. Again, this is over the course of the last 34 years, is a 138 cases in Minnesota. That is the upper end. Now that can make a difference. Right? Elections matter. And, obviously, some elections are really, really, really tight. And I'm quite suspicious of some election results, say, like, Al Franken over Norm Coleman, where someone discovers a box of ballots five seconds after the necessity for Al Franken to become a senator. Again, I think a lot of suspicious things happen. Would the current voter bill actually stop that? Not really.