Though it is vanishingly rare, voter and election fraud isn’t entirely made up.įormer Rep. In 2016, four instances of fraud were discovered among the 135 million ballots cast. One review conducted by Loyola Law School elections expert Justin Levitt of elections between 20, in which a collective 1 billion ballots were cast, found a grand total of 31 different incidents of fraud.
On the other hand, study after study has shown there is no widespread voter fraud in the United States. A new study out last month from researchers at Yale, Harvard and Penn found minorities were disproportionately likely to be incorrectly purged from Wisconsin voter rolls in recent years. Women, minorities and people with disabilities are more likely to have their signatures on absentee ballots challenged. Study after study has demonstrated that restrictions on voting disproportionately impact minorities and low-income voters, who are less likely to have a government-issued identification and more likely to have to wait in line at a polling place. That majority has struck down key elements of the Voting Rights Act, and it appeared receptive to further restrictions on voting rights during oral arguments this week.
#Tyranny of the minority install#
Republicans have wielded their majorities to install a six-vote majority on the U.S. Senate for 18 of the last 40 years, though they have accounted for a majority of the popular vote for only two of those 40 years, and they have represented a majority of Americans for only two of those 40 years. Republicans have held control of the U.S. Republican presidential candidates have carried the popular vote just once in the last eight elections, but the Electoral College has handed Republican presidents three terms over that stretch. In recent years, Republicans have relied on those voters to hand them power disproportionate to their share of the electorate. Republican opposition to expanding voting rights reflects the current complexion of the two major party coalitions: Republicans are earning a growing share of the vote among older whites and rural residents, who face fewer impediments to voting and ballot access than the younger, more diverse communities that form the cornerstone of the Democratic Party. “What Democrats are doing is consistent with longstanding American values of treating all citizens equally and ensuring that they have equal voting power and influence, and what Republicans are trying to do is classic authoritarian democratic backsliding like you see in places like Hungary and Poland and Turkey and Venezuela,” said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the think tank New America.
#Tyranny of the minority registration#
House on Wednesday night passing the broadest overhaul of national voting laws since the Voting Rights Act, expanding voter registration and access through widespread use of early and absentee voting while limiting a state’s ability to purge voters from its rolls. The moves to restrict votes came against the backdrop of the Democratic-controlled U.S. Overall, more than 250 bills have been introduced in 43 states that would restrict access to the ballot box. And Montana’s Republican-led state House approved new limits on those who can collect absentee ballots on behalf of voters. In Missouri, the Republican-controlled state House began considering a measure to require identification when casting an absentee ballot. Republicans are working on another measure to end the permanent list altogether. In Arizona, the Republican-controlled state Senate approved a measure to remove voters from a permanent absentee ballot list if they do not vote in two consecutive elections. In Georgia, the GOP-controlled state House this week voted to strictly limit absentee and early voting. Rather than recalibrating positions after an electoral loss to better appeal to the vast middle, Republicans today appear to see more advantage in excluding as many voters as possible from communities likely to vote Democratic. The party’s embrace of restrictive new measures and rollbacks of popular vote-by-mail and early voting programs that enjoyed bipartisan support just a few years ago is a reflection of the new incentive structure facing the Grand Old Party. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country are increasingly embracing measures to limit voting access after losing the highest-turnout election in American history.
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