NPR: “To those who closely follow the voter ID wars, Hans von Spakovsky is a household name, one of the nation’s leading crusaders against voter fraud, and also one of its more controversial. Days before the 2012 election, The New Yorker profiled him as ‘the man who has stoked fear about imposters at the poll.’ So it was news that von Spakovsky, a Republican lawyer and scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, failed to get a second term on the electoral board of Fairfax County, Virginia’s largest county, despite being the top choice of the county’s Republican Party.”