Listen here.

I need to say something about reader comments.  The first comment at the Takeaway accuses me of saying that the Wisconsin state supreme court race (which begins The Voting Wars) was stolen.  In fact, I argue in the book that it was not stolen, and I criticize first Republicans and then Democrats for making such claims.  The problem there was incompetence, not fraud.

I also just received an email accusing me of saying there is no voter fraud in elections (and then saying it is all done by Democrats).  In fact, I’ve written about the kind of fraud that actually occurs in elections—mostly election official and absentee ballot fraud–and rejected (after closely examining the evidence) that voter impersonation fraud is a real problem.  That doesn’t make me a “vote fraud denier;” it makes me someone who looks at the evidence.  Some election fraud exists and is a problem; some is so rare as to not be a problem.

I don’t know if the problem is that people don’t read/listen to what I actually say, that they hear what they want to hear, or they are being disingenuous when they say I said things which I did not say.