I’ve spent a lot of time recently looking at allegations of voter suppression, voter intimidation, and dirty tricks since 2000 for a chapter of The Voting Wars. Unlike allegations of voter fraud, my conclusion is that there are real attempts at voter suppression and voter intimidation, though some claims are false and many are exaggerated. However, there is little evidence that such schemes usually work. (The chapter covers, among other things, the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming case, the 2010 “Don’t Vote” ads in Nevada by “Latinos for Reform,” the effects of new voter identification laws, claims of hacking of voting machines, and the New Black Panthers incident.) Some schemes even may be counterproductive.