The long-awaited report is here. On the last page of the pdf you will find links to four appendices, including a 197-page appendix of cases involving possible voter fraud.
As I read the report, it finds not only no systematic evidence of voter fraud, but also no accepted common definition of the term voter fraud. The report takes the important first step of defining “election crimes,” and sets forth the methodology it will use to conduct a study to accurately gauge the extent to which such crimes take place.
Meanwhile, Tova Wang, one of the consultants to the EAC on the report, has posted Where’s the Voter Fraud? on the Century Foundation website. It begins:
- Over the past month, the silence has been deafening.
For the past few years, many on the Right have been vociferously propagating the myth that voter fraud at the polling place is a rampant problem of crisis proportions. But we haven’t heard from them lately. In fact, as far as my research can discover (Nexis and Google news searches of multiple relevant terms), there has not been one confirmed report of any of these types of incidents in the 2006 election. Not one. Even the Republican National Committee’s vote fraud watch operation in their list of complaints from the 2006 election could not come up with one such case.