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But the vast majority have never investigated or prosecuted a voter-fraud case, and have no experience or interest in doing so.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
Some of the sloppiness that makes fraud and foul-ups in election counts possible seems to be built into the system by design.
Two of the biggest barriers to the prosecution of voter fraud are the misapplication of resources within the Justice Department and the political and ideological bias of too many of its lawyers.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
His assistants were freely offered ballots at several locations without being asked to produce identification.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
In Broward County, Florida, for example, an eight-year-old girl successfully registered to vote.
It does not take a visionary to see that, in the absence of clear rules, we can expect campaign lawyers to attempt to turn the most implausible legal theory into a court ruling in their favor.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
The Department of Justice prosecuted its largest voter fraud case ever in Chicago—prosecutors estimated that 100,000 fraudulent ballots were cast in the 1982 gubernatorial election.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
In recent years, the biggest battle in election reform has been over voter ID—requiring voters to present a government-issued photographic identification when they vote at their polling places on Election Day.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
‘When many Republicans lose an election, they go back into what they call the private sector. When many Democrats lose an election, they lose power and money. They need to eat, and people will do an awful lot in order to eat.’
‘You don’t need it,’ the poll worker replied. ‘It’s all right. As long as you’re in here, you’re on our list, and that’s who you say you are, you’re okay.’
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
At least eight of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.
A veteran Justice Department prosecutor told one of the authors that while there was never an official memorandum delineating the Clinton administration’s policy on [voter fraud], the unofficial word had come down from the Clinton political leadership to the career prosecutors that there was ‘no interest’ in pursuing voter fraud cases.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
Attorney General Holder is a staunch opponent of laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls to improve ballot security. He calls them ‘unnecessary,’ and has blocked their implementation in Texas and South Carolina under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, citing the fear that such requirements would discriminate against minorities.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
Reform is easy to talk about, but difficult to bring about. Many of the suggested improvements, such as requiring voters to show ID at the polls, are bitterly opposed. For instance, Maria Cardona, spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, claims that ‘ballot security and preventing voter fraud are just code words for voter intimidation and suppression.’
The 2000 recount was more than merely a national embarrassment; it left a lasting scar on the American electoral psyche. A Zogby poll a few years ago found that 38 percent of Americans still regarded the 2000 election outcome as questionable.
Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012)
Perhaps no piece of legislation in the last generation better captures the ‘incentivizing’ of fraud and the clash of conflicting visions about the priorities of our election system than the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as the ‘Motor Voter Law.’
A former Democratic congressman gave me this explanation of why voting irregularities more often crop up in his party’s back yard: ‘When many Republicans lose an election, they go back into what they call the private sector. When many Democrats lose an election, they lose power and money. They need to eat, and people will do an awful lot in order to eat.’