Ideological, paranoid crackpots lack the integrity to accept certified losses, so they delude themselves into their fantasies. Whenever they lose, it is a diabolical conspiracy against them. They hate democracy.
While extremely rare, there are isolated instances:
Rensselaer County Republican elections board commissioner Jason Schofield pleaded guilty to federal charges of fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots.
On January 11th, Schofield faced a federal judge, pleading guilty to a 12 count indictment.
As part of that plea, he admitted to unlawfully possessing and using the names and dates of birth of voters in connection with 12 absentee ballot applications.
He then electronically submitted the information into the New York State Voter Absentee Ballot Application Request Portal.
Schofield admitted that for each application, he falsely certified that he was the voter requesting the ballot. He also admitted that he took personal possession of 9 of these ballots, while knowing and intending that RCBOE records would falsely reflect that the ballots had been mailed to the voters, according to a federal release...