Fact: Widespread voter fraud by so-called illegal aliens is an absolute myth. Don’t take my word for it, but rather that of The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank.

According to Heritage, in all elections from 1982 through 2025, there has been a whopping nine total cases of ineligible voting by aliens; hardly enough to sway the outcome of a student council election, let alone a nationwide presidential one.

The truth is that we never had an issue with our elections until Donald Trump ran for public office. Because he is incapable of admitting and accepting defeat, he has to spew the lie of election fraud. His issue isn’t only losing to Democrats, but even to Republicans. Do some research and see what Trump said after he lost the 2016 Iowa Republican Caucus to Ted Cruz. Spoiler alert, sore loser Trump said that the GOP Caucus was “rigged.”

When Ford lost in 1976, did he incite an insurrection to overturn the election? No. Did George H.W. Bush? No. Did Bill Clinton, when his vice president, Al Gore, supposedly lost Florida by less than 600 votes and the Supreme Court ordered the vote counting be stopped? No. Why? Because each of them conducted themselves in the manner of the honorable, decent men they were, not as a petulant child who, at nearly four score years old, hasn’t learned what it is to be a man.

Kirk J. Dodson

Duncansville