Fraud Fix?

The Post Dispatch and USA Today recently reported on an undisclosed study commissioned by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

The report, delivered to the commission four months ago but not released publicly, finds little evidence of the type of fraud laws such as the voted-ID bill here in Missouri is supposed to address.

The bipartisan report by two consultants to the election commission casts doubt on the problem those laws are intended to address. “There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling-place fraud, or at least much less than is claimed, including voter impersonation, ‘dead' voters, non-citizen voting and felon voters,” the report says.

Currently the Voter-ID bill passed by the Missouri legislature is tied up in the Missouri Supreme Court.