"The Truth About Voter Fraud" -- A New Report From the Brennan Center
The Brennan Center for Justice recently released a fifty-page report entitled "The Truth About Voter Fraud," which explains that many claims of voter fraud "simply do not pan out."
Crying “wolf” when the allegations are unsubstantiated distracts attention from real problems that need real solutions. If we can move beyond the fixation on voter fraud, we will be able to focus on the real changes our elections need, from universal registration all the way down to sufficient parking at the poll site. Claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies that do not solve the alleged wrongs, but that could well disenfranchise legitimate voters.
ACS recently hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Voter ID Laws: Preventing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?" Video from that discussion is available here.
The panel included:
- Julie Fernandes, Senior Policy Analyst and Special Counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Deborah Goldberg, Democracy Program Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
- Robert Kelner, Partner and Chair of Election and Political Law Practice, Covington & Burling LLP
- Spencer Overton, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
- Moderator Tova Wang, Democracy Fellow, The Century Foundation