"Lorraine Minnite, a public-policy professor at Rutgers, collated decades
of electoral data for her 2010 book, “The Myth of Voter Fraud,” and
came up with some striking statistics. In 2005, for example, the federal
government charged many more Americans with violating migratory-bird
statutes than with perpetrating election fraud, which has long been a
felony. She told me, “It makes no sense for individual voters to
impersonate someone. It’s like committing a felony at the police
station, with virtually no chance of affecting the election outcome.” A
report by the Times in 2007 also found election fraud to be rare.
During the Bush Administration, the Justice Department initiated a
five-year crackdown on voter fraud, but only eighty-six people were
convicted of any kind of election crime."
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