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Voter Fraud is a Myth, Voter Suppression is not
Trump can’t
accept loss in
popular vote
C ornell W illiaM b rooks
President
Donald
Trump last week called
for the federal gov-
ernment to spend re-
sources investigating
alleged ‘voter fraud’ in
the 2016 elections. Un-
able to accept the fact
that he lost the popular vote by
some 2.8 million votes, President
Trump has repeated his naked and
reckless claim that 3 to 5 million
illegal votes were cast in the 2016
by
election by “illegal immigrants.”
However, this notion of wide-
spread voter fraud in the 2016
election, or any other American
election cycle for that matter, is
false and dangerous.
Voter Fraud has been prov-
en virtually non-existent
through studies conduct-
ed by the Brennan Cen-
ter for Justice at New
York University, Arizona
State University, and the
Washington Post, among
others. The Washington
Post’s 2015 study showed that be-
tween 2000 and 2014 there were
only 31 alleged cases of in-person
voter fraud among the over 1 bil-
lion votes cast in the United States
The Law Offices of
Patrick John Sweeney, P.C.
Patrick John Sweeney
during that time period. Yet, this
supposed widespread voter fraud
is consistently used as justification
for voting restrictions that sup-
press the votes of African-Amer-
icans and Latinos.
While reasonable people can
debate many issues regarding the
operation of our electoral process,
one thing is clear—widespread
voter fraud such as that alleged
by President Trump is a complete
myth.
In stark contrast to the myth
of widespread voter fraud is the
proven reality of voter suppres-
sion. A number of federal courts
across the country have deter-
mined that certain states enacted
voting restrictions that discrim-
inated against black and Latino
Americans, as in Texas, or, worse
yet, were written with the specific
intent to suppress the black vote,
as in North Carolina.
In fact, a federal appellate court
held that North Carolina’s law
targeted African-American voters
with “almost surgical precision.”
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Voting restrictions such as those
recently struck down in Texas,
North Carolina and elsewhere
weaken our democracy and them-
selves cast serious doubt on the
legitimacy of our electoral pro-
cesses.
If President Trump is serious
about strengthening our democ-
racy, he should demand that Con-
gress send him a bill to restore
Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965, such as the Voting
Rights Advancement Act of 2015.
He should also withdraw the nom-
ination of Sen. Jefferson Sessions
for Attorney General and put forth
a nominee with a record of sup-
porting voting rights for all Amer-
icans. And he should acknowledge
the widespread voter suppression
taking place in this country while
rejecting the myth that ‘voter
fraud’ justifies blocking access to
the ballot box for millions of black
and Latino voters.
Cornell William Brooks is pres-
ident and chief executive officer of
the NAACP.
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