There have been registration frauds-canvassers in big electioneering pushes have signed up anyone and everyone, for example, the living and the dead. But proven instances of people going into polling places unqualified to vote, masquerading as others, or in multiple jurisdictions-these have been few and far between. As Loyola Law School professor Richard Hasen points out, a lot of attention is being paid to voting irregularities. Absentee ballot fraud and vote-buying schemes have been found, while impersonation voter fraud has not. Impersonation fraud on any scale is as hard to conceal-it requires a lot of coordination. The strong inference is that there is not much of it happening. Were there evidence of routine or systematic voter fraud, it might be appropriate to establish systematic measures to counter it. As in all policy decisions, the steps taken to counter occasional voter fraud or the threat of it must be balanced against their costs. cato.org/blog/voter-id-laws-rights-convicted-felons
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:13:06 +0000
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