Rick HasenVerified account

1/ Two of the three examples of "voter fraud" @CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord points to are very old: 1948 and 1982. As to the third example

2/ Philly, I'd suggest looking at Lori Minnite's book, "The Myth of Voter Fraud," which debunks story after story like this

3/ The tell is that Lord relies upon totally unreliable reporting by von Spakovsky, Fund, debunked by Minnite #fraudulentfraudsquad

4/ More to the point, there are no examples I could find since the early 1980s where an election plausibly thrown by impersonation fraud,and

5/ Impersonation fraud is the only kind of fraud a voter id law prevents. We do have more instances of absentee ballot fraud, but

6/ Those restrictive Republican voter laws ostensibly targeting voter fraud usually leave absentee ballots alone. If one were serious about

7/ If serious about combatting the real voter fraud that takes place, there would be no absentee balloting except w an excuse like illness

8/ But Republicans have no appetite to make absentee voting harder,because it is convenient and they benefit from it and amount of fraud low