Election integrity is serious business. Which is exactly why it deserves better than a governmentwide scavenger hunt that gets marketed like the Red Sox just found a new shortstop.
Associated Press reported Tuesday night that Homeland Security Investigations said the administration’s broad effort to find noncitizens illegally on voter rolls had produced about 1,600 voter-fraud cases and 160 arrests. That is not nothing; individual unlawful votes deserve investigation and prosecution. But it is also a number that underscores how rare the conduct remains against a backdrop of more than 211 million active voters, despite the federal manpower and political foghorns aimed at the subject. AP reporting
Meanwhile, there is an actual, concrete election-administration case in Utah: the Justice Department announced that a former Postal Service letter carrier was indicted on allegations that he discarded mail including roughly 300 ballots intended for Eagle Mountain voters in the June 23 primary. Prosecutors say he dumped mail in a church-parking-lot dumpster to lighten his workload. That allegation is serious, specific, and headed through court—not the usual loose pile of insinuations served up with a side of onion rings. The defendant is presumed innocent. Justice Department announcement
The distinction matters, pal. Chase real crimes, protect every lawful ballot, and show the receipts. Turning a rare problem into a national panic machine is not election security; it is just a CB-radio conspiracy net with federal stationery.
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