The Myth of Voter Fraud

On the Media | Oct 21, 2016

Donald Trump is only the latest in a line of American politicians to claim that an election can be stolen, specifically by voters who commit fraud at the polls. But despite the depictions of voters impersonating the deceased and stuffing ballots that are revived every few years, there is a stunning lack of evidence that such things ever happen. Bob talks with Michael Waldman, president of The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and the author of The Fight to Vote, about how voter fraud simply doesn't happen and about the adverse effects -- and laws -- that are born out of the hysteria surrounding it.

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