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WSJ’s “The Numbers Guy” tackles the extent of voter impersonation fraud. The piece ends: “One rare point of agreement among most experts: Absentee-ballot fraud is a far bigger problem than voter-impersonation fraud—about 50 times more common, says News21—and voter-ID laws … Continue reading
See here. Chapter 2 of The Voting Wars discusses Bond’s earlier—and debunked—claims of stolen elections in the past. … Continue reading
Elections in the Hands of the Partisan and Incompetent. Yesterday: The Fake Voter Fraud Epidemic and the 2012 Election. … Continue reading
My latest guest blog post over at Talking Points Memo. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Here in the NY Post. Check out the debunking. … Continue reading
This item appears at The Plum Line (WaPo). … Continue reading
Following up on this post, see Steven Rosenfeld’s thorough debunking. … Continue reading
Byron York column for Washington Examiner. I don’t have time for a full response now, but you need to view everything von Spakovsky and Fund skeptically. On the allegations of Minnesota Majority in Coleman-Franken (discussed in detail in The Voting Wars), … Continue reading
Must-read TPM. It seems that Fund agrees with me that absentee voting is the real problem if we were serious about curbing the potnential for fraud. There’s lots about Fund and von Spakovksy’s efforts to spread the voter fraud meme … Continue reading
Coming in the mail today: Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk by John Fund and Hans von Spakovksy. I discuss the pioneering efforts of Fund and von Spakovsky in the 2000s to hype impersonation voter … Continue reading
Justin has put in the time to thoroughly demolish the so-called “study” from the National Center on Public Policy Research. For more, don’t miss his thorough annotation of the document itself. Thank you Justin for this public service. … Continue reading
As Rick noted (here and here), the National Center for Public Policy Research has produced an essay that has gotten some recent publicity. Branded a “study” by others, it is long on eloquence and passion … but mighty short on … Continue reading
TPM reports. More about the substance of the study is coming. … Continue reading
Daily Caller [corrected link]: “Criminal justice data shows that blacks and poor people are the most common victims of voter fraud and are the greatest beneficiaries of voter identification rules, according to a new study.” I hope to be able … Continue reading
Last week I had a blog post entitled Democrats Fundraising Off Voting Wars in PA Voter ID Suit, which began: Christian Adams reports. One of the main claims I make regarding voter i.d. in The Voting Wars is that the … Continue reading
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The Fraudulent Fraud Squad comes to Burbank. … Continue reading
Keystone Politics: “I think the correct way to understand why Al Schmidt was willing to put his name on this hilariously unscientific ”study” on voting irregularities in Philly is that conservative politicians, pundits and blog trolls needed a passable comeback to the overwhelming evidence … Continue reading
I’ve posted some thoughts over at Politico’s Arena. … Continue reading
Eugene Robinson: “Spare us any more hooey about ‘preventing fraud’ and ‘protecting the integrity of the ballot box.’ The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws has been revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as … Continue reading
Mediaite reports. As part of the segment, John Oliver interviewed John Fund. … Continue reading
Breitbart.com: “Still, by any reasonable yardstick, ballot integrity advocates remain at a disadvantage in 2012. The Left, and its allies within Democratic Party, have been adept at manufacturing fraudulent votes since John F. Kennedy was narrowly elected over Richard Nixon … Continue reading
Watch this. UPDATE: Redstate points to an unedited version of the interview. The part highlighted at RedState does not appear to a discussion of actual voter fraud, as opposed to electoral errors. More about such distinctions here. … Continue reading
Thomas Sowell has written this article for National Review Online. … Continue reading
The Recall Elections Blog reports. Let’s see if Mr. Priebus continues to raise the issue of voter fraud after the Governor survives the recall. As I explain in some detail, these claims of impersonation voter fraud made by Republicans cease … Continue reading
An allegation with nothing to back it up. And note how it is always fraud which helps Democrats. What else is new? … Continue reading
The latest from Ohio. MORE: “Congressional Democrats bash voting law as state lawmakers eye appeal” and Senate hearing in downtown Cleveland to discuss voting rights and State Bill 194 A snippet from the last article: Although he did not present … Continue reading
Ben Adler writes for The Nation. … Continue reading
Matthew Vadum and Kevin Mooney [corrected] write, in which the Advancement Project replaces the Secretary of State project as Soros’s tool. I discuss the demise of the Secretary of State project, and the right’s obsession with Soros, in Chapter 4 … Continue reading
Philadelphia Inquirer: Then there’s absentee voting. David Oh, now a freshman on City Council, had sought office in 2007 and had a solid lead in unofficial tallies from voting machines. Yet it became a 122-vote loss – thanks to hundreds … Continue reading
“Most fraudsters are smart enough to have their accomplices cast votes in the names of dead people on the voter rolls, who are highly unlikely to appear and complain that someone else voted in their place.” —John Fund, providing no … Continue reading
No, that’s not a new cable channel. It’s “the ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, Advancement Project, Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDF), Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, DEMOS, League of Women Voters, Mexican American Legal Defense … Continue reading
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See here.The report says that there were two prosecutions for “voter impersonation” (It was not clear to me from the story if there were any convictions). I want much more detail on these claims,how they arose, and whether they led … Continue reading
Katrina vanden Heuvel has written this column for WaPo. … Continue reading
TPM: “The National Center for Public Policy Research announced this week it had formed a ‘Voter Identification Task Force’ to continue ALEC’s ‘excellent work’ in ‘promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting.’ Describing itself as a ‘conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank,’ … Continue reading
Here, at KPCC’s Patt Morrison show. … Continue reading
Weigel. … Continue reading
AP reports. MORE from the DCist. … Continue reading
The Business Insider reports. … Continue reading
Media Matter reports. More from WaPo. … Continue reading
Must be election season. This is nothing new for Fund. … Continue reading
Michelle Malkin: “Behind the scenes, Democrats have been busy faking petition signatures, forging ballots and enlisting medical professionals to authorize fraudulent doctors’ notes for liberal teachers-union operatives protesting Republican opponents. It’s no laughing matter.” … Continue reading
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Michael Thielen digs himself deeper into a hole. The released chapter of my forthcoming book discusses the best academic studies available on voter i.d. The simple reason my book does not cite any evidence from the Carter-Baker commission is its … Continue reading
Think Progress has a new post entitled: Texas Had ‘Fewer Than Five’ Voter Impersonation Cases Over Three Years. But that headline implies that at least one of these cases had merit. But there were only five complaints, and some or … Continue reading
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