An op-ed today in the Washington Post entitled "The Myth Of Voter Fraud" compares the investigation of allegations of electoral fraud with a search for the mythical beast, Sasquatch, a.k.a. Bigfoot. Tales of voter fraud are "urban myth".
The assumption, therefore, is that voter fraud couldn't exist except in the imagination. Since we may assume this, there is no need to actually look at the facts and draw conclusions.
But that's not the interesting thing about the debunking. At first glance, one might think the article was intent on combating reports of widespread fraud in recent US elections, such as the concern over electronic ballot machines. This is not so.
The article doesn't address fraud in which men in power disenfranchize the American people. In fact, it acknowledges that this is quite normal, that "politicians have been stuffing ballot boxes and buying votes since senators wore togas".
Rather, the allegations of fraud being debunked are those concerning "fraud by individual voters".
Of course, nobody is concerned about fraud by individual voters. What people are concerned about is fraud by politicians and powerful men in government and private industry.
But, apparently, the possibility of fraud of that kind is of no concern.
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