Jon Stewart Looks At The Nonexistent Problem Of Voter Fraud

[Swede]

Conservatives and their “media division,” known to some as Fox News Channel, believe the U.S. has a voter fraud problem. And how big is this alleged problem?

“I’m gonna say it’s bigger than ringworm and less than Bieber fever,” Jon Stewart said Wednesday. “Actually I didn’t know we had a voter fraud problem in this country.”

We don’t, actually. The Republican National Lawyers Association in a study found only 340 cases of voter fraud over the course of a decade.

Stewart imagined how conservatives would defend the voter ID laws popping up in swing states with Republican-controlled legislatures: “It doesn’t happen, this won’t stop it … I think you can see why we have to do it now.”

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[1-Old-Man]

1. The mistake is in thinking that somehow Republicans will be required to defend the laws

Those laws are already passed, no one will have to defend them, in fact just the opposite is necessary, they have to be challenged by democrats but even that is meaningless unless they can be repealed. Laws that get on the books tend to live forever, something that is mighty hard to fight.