In fact — as has also been pointed out ad nauseam — in-person voter fraud is an exceedingly rare act. He advocated precisely the sort of voter ID law that those focused on voter fraud advocate, even successfully defending Iowa’s ID law in court. It’s tricky to compare these data to population data, though, because population data is derived from federal surveys including the decennial census and is therefore generally a year or two old. Just as Los Angeles’s reduction of its voter rolls did as much for preventing voter fraud as adding more locks to the doors of an empty house would prevent theft, removing ineligible voters from county voter rolls has not been shown to actually prevent rampant voter fraud — since rampant voter fraud itself hasn’t been shown to exist. Judicial Watch uses these numbers to fearmonger about people voting illegally, since it can’t show actual illegal voting.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2020 22:06 UTC