[EL] Voter fraud? What voter fraud!?! Nothing to see here, people. Move along.

[Rick Hasen]

I don't know any serious person studying this issue who says there is no 
election fraud.  The vast majority of the relatively small number of 
cases involve either election officials committing fraud, or voters, 
candidates, and others committing absentee ballot fraud.
The problem is that the supposed cure---voter id---does not stop these 
main types of fraud.
If John Fund and others started a serious push to eliminate the use of 
absentee ballots, then I would take their concerns about voter fraud 
much more seriously. But it is not a part of the antifraud measures 
proposed and adopted by those who claim this is a major problem.

On 2/8/13 7:35 AM, Joe La Rue wrote:
> This is not directed at Rick, who has candidly acknowledged that voter 
> fraud does, sometimes, happen.  But there are others who say that 
> "voter fraud" is nothing but an invention of those who want to 
> suppress voters by requiring photo ID.  Worse, some say that it is an 
> invention to keep minorities from voting.  Well, for all who say that 
> voter fraud never, ever, happens, here's another example of that 
> "non-existent" phenomenon. 
> http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340174/voter-fraud-never-happens-keeps-coming-back-john-fund
> Joe
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