Reply #50: DUer DeepModem Mom: WP op-ed: "The Myth Of Voter Fraud"

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DeepModem Mom Thu Mar-29-07 03:23 AM
WP op-ed: "The Myth Of Voter Fraud"
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The Myth Of Voter Fraud
By Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt
Thursday, March 29, 2007; Page A19
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032801969.html?nav=hcmodule&reload=true

As Congress probes the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, attention is centering on who knew what, and when. It's just as important to focus on "why," such as the reason given for the firing of at least one of the U.S. attorneys, John McKay of Washington state: failure to prosecute the phantom of individual voter fraud.

Allegations of voter fraud -- someone sneaking into the polls to cast an illicit vote -- have been pushed in recent years by partisans seeking to justify proof-of-citizenship and other restrictive ID requirements as a condition of voting. Scare stories abound on the Internet and on editorial pages, and they quickly become accepted wisdom.

But the notion of widespread voter fraud, as these prosecutors found out, is itself a fraud.