In 2007, the Bush Administration Justice Department completed a five-year investigation of voter fraud across the nation and came up with scant evidence anything more significant than handful of mostly technical violations by individual voters. The liberal "American Prospect" magazine summed things up thusly:
As the Republican Myth has it, nothing is more fraught with fraud than voter-registration campaigns waged in working-class and poor neighborhoods that are largely black or Hispanic. According to the 2004 Census, 15 percent of blacks and Hispanics were registered during such campaigns; the figure for whites is just 9 percent. But of those 38 prosecutions that the Justice Department brought between 2002 and 2005, a grand total of two were for fabricating or falsifying voter registration applications. This qualifies as one of our smaller crime waves.
But some people cling to myths and one of those people is Tom Barrow, who is absolutely convinced massive voter fraud takes place in Detroit elections. Unfortunately for Barrow, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers don't buy it, declaring there isn't "probable cause to believe there’s wrongdoing or a violation of the law."
Detroit News: Barrow questioned an estimated 40-50 ballots covering several districts. His accusations that the writing on many of the ballots matched prompted canvassers to hire a handwriting expert to compare 19 ballots. The results, which canvassers received Monday, showed it was “highly probable” different people filled out the ballots Barrow questioned.
But Barrow isn't satisfied because, he says, the Board of Canvassers refuses to investigate further his unsubstantiated charges. Those monsters.
