As reported by the New York Times:
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
The article goes on to mention that most of the fraud cases appear to be the result of folks unfamiliar with voter registration laws, but there were a handful of vote-buying schemes found. The article is silent on the problem of voter-registration campaigns either discarding or filling out phony registrations, or on Ann Coulter’s voting in the wrong district in 2004.
So, why all the fuss about fraudulent voting destroying the integrity of our elections?
As a Republican election official in Atlanta, Mr. Spakovsky had pushed for stricter voter identification laws. Democrats say those laws disproportionately affect the poor because they often mandate government-issued photo IDs or driver’s licenses that require fees.
Hmmmm.surely that’s a coincidence.