[SeekAndFind]

Note: This is a guest post by Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola University Law School and an expert in constitutional law and the law of democracy, with a particular focus on election administration and redistricting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I suppose Nelson Mandela believed in voter suppression?

[Bogey78O]

All based on the premise that we know all incidents.

Current law doesn’t allow for knowing how deep the problem runs.

[dirtboy]

If you don’t have voter ID and don’t have blabbermouthed multi-voters, it is almost impossible to detect. The only real way to find this is to look for dead people still voting, which is a tremendous task.

[FlingWingFlyer]

With the commie ‘RATS always telling us that our vote is “sacred” and that ONE VOTE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, ONE fraudulent vote is too much.

[oldbrowser]

To put this in perspective, the 31 incidents below come in the context of general, primary, special, and municipal elections from 2000 through 2014. In general and primary elections alone, more than 1 billion ballots were cast in that period.

He should have checked all billion of the votes if he wants to use that entire population in his results.
Otherwise he should give the number of votes he actually checked.

[Dr. Sivana]

If Philadelphia has 120% turnout, the number of incidents is at least 1/6 of the total vote and almost certainly greater.

Nice of the dear professor from Illinois to state the Wisconsin Supreme Court blew it twice. Maybe he should run for a judgeship.

I also like that he takes for a given that this is a cost/benefit analysis.

No. It is, what does the law require, and does the law require anything against the constitution? Cost/Benefit is a political decision, outside the jurisdiction of the courts.

[Robert A Cook PE]

He is a liar, a paid and professional “voter id” political hack.

[Boogieman]

I see. So if you define voter fraud as only the most uncommon type of voter fraud, and then you investigate, you won’t find very much of it. Funny how that works.

Now, maybe the Post can get around to investigating how many Democrats register and vote in two different states by abusing absentee ballots?

[Beagle8U]

“So far, I’ve found about 31 different incidents (some of which involve multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country.”

Without uniform voter ID laws in place there is no way of catching the fraud. How many tickets for driving without a license would be issued if it was illegal for cops to check?

When you make it illegal to collect evidence you haven’t proved the absence of crime.

[Political Junkie Too]

Impersonating someone else is only one kind of voter fraud. There is also voting at multiple precincts, and voting in multiple states via absentee ballots.

But, the biggest voter fraud that ID is supposed to check is the illegal vote by non-citizens, and specifically, illegal aliens who have no documentation at all.

-PJ

[Zeppo]

Looks like Justin Levitt is the new poster child for the legions of foolish “see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil” Democrats who enthusiastically approve of and support illegal acts that further the interests of the Democrats.

I understand the pathological phenomenon somewhat, because criminals make up such an important voting bloc within the Democratic Party base, and so of course they will cater to the needs and desires of those criminals.