The Meme of Voter Fraud
Abstract
This paper will propose a different theoretical framework to address the voter fraud myth: memetics. This paper argues that the most appropriate way to think about the myth of voter fraud is as a meme. A meme is “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture” without regard to the truth or falsity of the idea. Memes spread because the ideas re-enforce the views of the purveyors of the meme and increase the purveyor’s power. In a sense, our memes can program us to accept or explain away ideas and can form the basis of our ideologies.
Keywords
voting, voter fraud, election integrity, voter suppression, meme, memetics, ideology
Publication Date
2014
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
63 Catholic University Law Review 879 (2014)
Repository Citation
Ellis, Atiba R., "The Meme of Voter Fraud" (2014). Faculty Publications. 2206.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/2206