Republican policy argument: Imagine a terrorist immigrant who votes illegally
Philip Bump
March 16, 2021 at 10:17 a.m. EDT
A database of fraud cases compiled by a conservative organization includes only two examples of voter fraud from the 2020 general election. One was of a Michigan man who filled out his daughter’s ballot for her at her request and then forged her signature before submitting it to the county. (The daughter’s vote was eventually counted.) The other is of a woman in Colorado who submitted two ballots by accident. But the database is incorrect there — that case was in the 2020 primary.
The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) spent a lot of time, about 22,000 person-hours, scouring the state for examples of fraud last year. It found 16 cases in which people used false addresses when registering to vote. That’s about one problematic registration for every million voters in the state as of January 2020 and a rate of one problematic registration for every 57 days of time spent looking. None of those cases resulted in criminal charges ...
... Hundreds of pieces of legislation have been proposed or introduced in recent months to change the way elections are run in the United States. Most are predicated to at least some degree on vague claims of fraud elevated by Trump and his allies over the past year. Here .. the alleged fraud mostly serves as a rhetorical tool to bolster the desired outcome ...
... the policy goal exists almost entirely outside of the rationale used to justify the goal. The desired outcome with new laws on voting is often to constrain access to voting in ways that disadvantage Democratic voters ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/16/perfect-republican-policy-argument-imagine-terrorist-immigrant-who-votes-illegally/
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