OKLAHOMA CITY – Any concerns about widespread voter fraud in the Presidential election in Oklahoma last year appear to be unfounded.
A total of 49 instances of alleged voter irregularities in 14 counties occurred during the November 3, 2020, general election, and were reported to the Oklahoma State Election Board.
Those included a case in Comanche County in which an absentee ballot was submitted after the voter’s death. “I have not received a resolution from the District Attorney or the Sheriff's Department,” Election Board Secretary Amy Sims said Tuesday.
Payne County reported two cases in which absentee ballots were returned by persons other than the voters themselves, contrary to state law. And in Haskell County, a mother refused to vote independently of her daughter and became disruptive, poll workers reported.
Elsewhere in the state, Oklahoma County reported 19 cases of voter “fraud”; Tulsa County, eight cases; Pittsburg and Muskogee counties, four cases each; Cleveland, Delaware and Okmulgee counties, two cases each; and Grady, Mayes, Osage and Sequoyah counties, one case each.
“All of these alleged crimes involved voters who voted twice, unless otherwise noted,” said Misha Mohr, public information officer for the State Election Board. “I should also add that many times, alleged ‘double voters’ are elderly citizens who don’t remember submitting their absentee ballots and show up at the polls on Election Day to vote.”
The Presidential election received the most votes in the general election last November: 1,560,699 votes in Oklahoma. Those 49 irregularities constituted .0031% of the total votes cast in that race – 31 ten-thousandths of 1 percent.