Election Fraud: Detecting the Undetectable

To know the true extent of a crime, it must be detectable. Progressives contend that election fraud isn’t a problem in America because of its low incidence of detection. That’s like saying that because border agents didn’t apprehend (i.e., detect) any illegal aliens crossing our Southern border last night that no one snuck in. Ridiculous! No one knows how much election fraud occurs in America because under the current system much election fraud is simply — undetectable.

On ABC’s This Week on August 25, Cokie Roberts opined: “What’s going on about voting rights is downright evil.” The “evil” Ms. Roberts is referring to is the June 25 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, whereby the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the Voting Rights Act (1965) that required certain states to get preclearance when they change their voting laws.

Miss Cokie may also be in a snit about the states that are beefing up their voter ID requirements, as well as the recent actions by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kansas now requires proof of citizenship for voter registrants. In “Kansas and Arizona unite in lawsuit over voter registration laws” in the Kansas City Star on August 21, Brad Cooper writes:

Doug Bonney, the ACLU’s legal director in Kansas City, said Kobach’s latest court battle will do nothing to help the people whose registrations were suspended. He said laws like the one in Kansas and two other states only keep people out of the voting booth.

“The problem was the law was a solution in search of a problem,” Bonney said. “There is no evidence of a single case in Kansas, or elsewhere quite frankly, of citizenship fraud in order to register to vote.”