Resources on Bradley J. Schlozman, Associate Counsel to the Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, relating to voter fraud and alleged attempts to combat voter fraud.
Much of the hue and cry about voter fraud is accompanied by calls for restrictive ID requirements, like laws requiring voters to show particular photo ID documents at the polls. Some of this may be a sincere, if mistaken, belief in the need for restrictive ID measures. But this clip from a May 17, 2007, Houston Chronicle article suggests another rationale:
There are almost no known cases in which individuals have filled out registration forms in someone else’s name in order to impersonate them at the polls. And most reports of registration fraud do not actually claim that the fraud happens so that ineligible people can vote at the polls.
Instead, when registration fraud is alleged, the allegations generally fall into one of four categories:
