[EL] Incidents of fraud ID is designed to stop

[Justin Levitt]

By the way, in the piece 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/> 
about fraud to which Rick linked, I listed the incidents I know of since 
2000 that reflect credible allegations of the type of fraud ID was 
designed to stop (to Brad's repeated point 
<http://department-lists.uci.edu/pipermail/law-election/2014-July/009759.html>, 
I agree that it's possible that there may be sporadic incidental effects 
on some other mistake or misconduct).  And I mentioned that I'd welcome 
additional information.

Specifically, I said that "I am a researcher, and so I am interested in 
a thorough list: if you have credible information about a specific 
individual whose vote was stolen by an impersonator at the polls, please 
tell me. Specific and credible means just that. Not --- please --- 
examples like this 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/27/the-manchurian-candidate-of-oklahoma/>. 
And if you have information about an incident below that indicates that 
it was error rather than fraud, please tell me that as well."

That's a sincere request.

-- 
Justin Levitt
Professor of Law
Loyola Law School | Los Angeles
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA  90015
213-736-7417
justin.levitt at lls.edu
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On 8/6/2014 8:22 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>     "A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31
>     credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast"
>     <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062>
>
> Posted on August 6, 2014 8:15 am 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062>by Rick Hasen 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>     Justin Levitt
>     <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/>
>     for WonkBlog:
>
>     I've been tracking allegations of fraud
>     <https://web.archive.org/web/20070622014244/http:/truthaboutfraud.org/index.html>
>     for years now
>     <http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/The%20Truth%20About%20Voter%20Fraud.pdf>,
>     including the fraud ID laws are designed to stop. In 2008, when
>     the Supreme Court weighed in on voter ID, I looked at every single
>     allegation
>     <http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/Democracy/Analysis%20of%20Crawford%20Allegations.pdf>
>     put before the Court. And since then, I've been following reports
>     wherever they crop up.
>
>     To be clear, I'm not just talking about prosecutions. I track any
>     specific, credible allegation that someone may have pretended to
>     be someone else at the polls, in any way that an ID law could fix.
>
>     So far, I've found about 31 different incidents (some of which
>     involve multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country. If
>     you want to check my work, you can read a comprehensive list of
>     the incidents below.
>
>     To put this in perspective, the 31 incidents below come in the
>     context of general, primary, special, and municipal elections from
>     2000 through 2014. In general and primary elections alone, more
>     than 1 billion ballots <http://www.fec.gov/general/library.shtml>
>     were cast in that period.
>
>     Some of these 31 incidents have been thoroughly investigated
>     (including some prosecutions). But many have not. Based on how
>     other claims have turned out, I'd bet that some of the 31 will end
>     up debunked: a problem with matching people from one big computer
>     list to another, or a data entry error, or confusion between two
>     different people with the same name, or someone signing in on the
>     wrong line of a pollbook.
>
> Posted in election administration 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, fraudulent fraud squad 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
>
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