When you are invested in vote fraud being a problem, evidence doesn’t matter
Though the original report said that among experts “there is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud,” the final version of the report released to the public concluded in its executive summary that “there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud.”
The bit that is most interesting:
The original report said most experts believe that “false registration forms have not resulted in polling place fraud,” but the final report cites “registration drives by nongovernmental groups as a source of fraud.”
Registration drives are, of course, a source of fraud, but the issue is that the evidence from those cases is that the point isn’t to get more voters, but for people who are paid by the registration to earn more money. It’s a problem, but a far different kind of problem than stealing elections.
John Cole points out the pattern here