Election officials failed at a 23% rate in ensuring only qualified voters voted in American elections.
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The Rob Carson ShowSep 7, 2026
No source measures how often American election officials fail to ensure only qualified voters vote, so the 23% figure cannot be checked. The closest figures (a 22% voter-roll match failure rate in a 2008 Wisconsin audit, and a 20% task-failure rate in a 2026 Texas survey) measure different things, and the claimant's own passage cannot corroborate the claim.
What was said
… Well, I really hope that John Sarcone will follow through on the idea that we've spoken about many times. Doesn't mean that I have a magic wand to make it, you know, suddenly appear as an indictment, but really, when election officials who are supposed to be the guards of this system you know, they're supposed to be the ones who make sure that only qualified voters vote in American elections when they fail at a 23% rate, that's not a clerical error. That is a breach of contract with the American people, and that is a federal crime. …
The Rob Carson Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. A 2008 Brennan Center report describes a 22% match failure rate in a Wisconsin Government Accountability Board voter-roll audit. This concerns database matching during registration, not a national failure rate for ensuring only qualified voters vote.[2]
Context. A 2026 Shorenstein Center Texas report finds 20% of potential voters were unsuccessful at an election-administration task. This measures voter difficulty, not election officials' failure to keep unqualified people from voting.[3]
Context. A Congress.gov study of 2016 jurisdictions found very few noncitizens voted, which bears on the broader topic but does not address a 23% failure rate.[1]
Sources
3 sources: 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1[PDF] Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions - Congress.govcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Voter Suppression Incidents 2008brennancenter.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3admin_issues_reportshorensteincenter.org · not rated · cited for: context
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