No Cases of Voter Fraud--EVER--So What Are Republicans Crying About?

If there are no cases of voter fraud (and there aren't) what the hell do we need voter ID laws for? Just asking...

The BRAD BLOG : Where's the Voter Fraud?: "Guest Blogged by Tova Andrea Wang, a Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation.

ED NOTE: Ms. Wang was chosen by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) to provide research and analysis for a report on 'voter fraud.' That report --- about which an early 'status report' version [PDF] leaked out after the EAC, apparently unhappy with the findings, failed to release it publicly --- showed little or no actual evidence of 'voter fraud' in America. The EAC finally released their 'final version' of the report [PDF] on December 7th, retitled with a freshly coined phrase: 'Election Crimes.'

Over the past month, the silence has been deafening.

For the past few years, many on the Right have been vociferously propagating the myth that voter fraud at the polling place is a rampant problem of crisis proportions. But we haven’t heard from them lately. In fact, as far as my research can discover (Nexis and Google news searches of multiple relevant terms), there has not been one confirmed report of any of these types of incidents in the 2006 election. Not one. Even the Republican National Committee’s vote fraud watch operation in their list of complaints from the 2006 election could not come up with one such case."

Oh wait, I know. Voter suppression. You think?!