Nearly all scholars of America’s system of locally run elections acknowledge chronic problems, including administrative incompetence, sloppy registration rolls, unreliable machinery, vote buying, and absentee-ballot fraud. But Robert Brandon, the president of the Fair Elections Legal Network and a longtime reformer, says that the current debate, “which is about people impersonating another voter, is silly.” He adds, “You can’t steal an election one person at a time. You can by stuffing ballot boxes—but voter I.D.s won’t stop that.
In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer gives an overview of the modern-day conservative voter I.D. movement, and profiles Hans von Spakovsky, the lawyer who might be doing the most to spearhead the cause.
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