"They Set It Up That Way": The Claim That Every Blue-State Election Is Stolen

A guest on The Benny Show said elections are stolen "every election in most of the Democratic states, if not all." We rate it false — truth score 0.08, confidence 0.88.

The same segment says you can't prove it "because of the way they've done it. They set it up that way." Here is what the record actually holds.

The claim comes at 38:28 in "How Communism Will Win…By Destroying America From The Inside | This Is Their Plan...," published August 18, 2026. We steelman it before we land the verdict, because the speaker is not inventing his material. Bridgeport, Connecticut is real: a judge voided a 2023 Democratic mayoral primary after drop-box video showed 1,253 absentee ballots deposited where only about 420 people appeared, and five people were criminally charged in February 2025. New Jersey disclosed roughly 6,600 noncitizen registrations from a Motor Vehicle Commission data transfer. The 2005 Baker-Carter Commission did conclude absentee ballots are the form of voting most vulnerable to fraud.

Then the arithmetic. The Heritage Foundation's own database — the best right-of-center compilation that exists — holds about 1,500 proven cases spanning decades, including roughly 10 in-person impersonation cases across billions of ballots. Using that database, Brookings computes mail-ballot fraud at about 0.00005% of ballots cast. Bill Barr's DOJ found no fraud on a scale that could have changed an outcome. A Republican-led Michigan Senate committee found no systemic fraud in a Democratic-governed swing state. And Bridgeport was detected on video, litigated, overturned and prosecuted by the system — the opposite of a system that hides theft.

We also take apart the illustration Benny Johnson supplies. Milwaukee did have a real error: five flash drives were uploaded with audit logs instead of results, delaying about 28,000 absentee ballots by roughly 90 minutes. No votes were lost. David Crowley won 39.8% to 39.3% — about 3,000 votes, 0.4 points — and Francesca Hong, who had led public polling for weeks, conceded and declined an available recount. Nobody was "down by 30 points"; the double-digit lead belonged to the candidate who lost.

One more thing our archive shows: four tracked shows covered the Milwaukee flash-drive error within twenty-four hours, and Bridgeport — the single prosecuted case that genuinely supports the speaker's position — has never been mentioned on any show we track.

What we do not claim to know: the archived transcript identifies the guest only as a former attorney general, and we have not confirmed who he is. The precise final-poll margin in the Wisconsin primary remains unpinned. The New Jersey and Pennsylvania figures are counts of registrations, not ballots cast. And every fraud estimate measures detected fraud — the record constrains the plausible size of what is missed, it does not reduce it to a proven zero.