Election Fraud Is Alive and Well in 2021

Last year, during the post-election controversy caused by the unique vote counting practices adopted by certain swing states, the New York Times summed up the conventional wisdom, "Claims of voter fraud are common. It's the fraud that's rare." It must have been vexing for the editors of the Gray Lady to run the following headline last Monday: "Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms." The fired workers had been employed by Fulton County, where questionable election night conduct attracted nationwide attention in 2020.

They will be less than thrilled with this story, published last Monday, in the Detroit News: "Three Metro Detroit women have been charged with election fraud by Attorney General Dana Nessel in connection to absentee ballot applications and ballots submitted during Michigan's 2020 general election." Michigan became the center of considerable controversy in 2020 after Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sent out unsolicited absentee ballot applications to every registered voter in the state, and illegally instructed election clerks to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures.

These actions, combined with other irregularities involving the refusal to allow election observers access to polling places or the ability to monitor vote counts, prompted the Michigan legislature to pass several measures aimed at improving election integrity.

Philadelphia Magazine reports, "Prosecutors say Marie Beren used her role as a de facto judge of elections in three South Philly voting divisions to cast fraudulent votes for candidates at all levels of government." According to a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "The allegations against her are tied to a larger case involving former U.S. Rep. Michael 'Ozzie' Myers, who rose to prominence during the 1970s Abscam scandal." The Myers investigation also led to the conviction of Philadelphia election judge Domenick Demuro for padding vote totals.

Beneath the tendentious headline, "4th Wisconsin voter out of 3 million charged with fraud," its author deploys a logical fallacy readers will recognize as the appeal to ignorance: "Charges of election fraud are exceedingly rare in Wisconsin." Obviously, a paucity of charges doesn't prove a shortage of chicanery, but this story isn't about tiresome evidence.

It's no coincidence that most proven instances of election fraud are committed by Democrats.

This is why election integrity laws - which are supported by the vast majority of Americans - are misrepresented by members of their party, their media allies, and partisan think tanks as "Voter suppression." If we want free and fair elections whose results reflect the will of the people, fraud must be eliminated.
 

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