United States election audits and electoral fraud

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The US political system is federalist. It has a split sovereign system where both the federal government and the states are sovereign in their respective spheres of responsibility. Due to historic distrust of appointed officers dating back to colonial days, the US elects more of its government and relies less on appointment. Positions such as school board, judge, and county clerk are elective in much of the country. Elections are organized by states and those responsibilities are devolved to counties, who further devolve them to smaller jurisdictions where relevant.

Electoral districts are the basis for all polling. Voters residing at a particular place are expected to come to their electoral district's polling station and cast their vote by secret ballot. Exceptions are made for those traveling and the ill. Results are tallied by ED and assembled, tabulated, and certified by the relevant officer which would be city and county clerks for lower level races, the state equivalent at the state level and for federal offices, Congress.

With over 3000 counties in the USA, electoral fraud in one jurisdiction or another at any time is a virtual certainty and every election year (elections are held every year someplace in the USA) there are court cases alleging voter fraud by both major parties. Recent examples include:

Historically, machine politics has played a huge role in organizing electoral fraud in the US.^{[citation needed]}

A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over"--"Let Us Prey."
by Thomas Nast
Wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly newspaper
September 23, 1871

Main article political machine.