Amusing Case of Voter Fraud

I normally don’t write about one-off crimes that stupid, hateful people commit, because the actions of one person, regardless of how depraved. doesn’t have any statistical meaning.

Here, however, the irony here is too great to ignore.

Voter fraud is rare, but it does exist.  It seems like a huge risk to take to generate one extra vote for a candidate.

Apparently, the state of Texas found 16 votes (out of 11 million votes cast) that didn’t match any known person at that address.  From the Texas Tribune, Texas Republicans are using this to:

….stage a sweeping legislative campaign to pass new voting restrictions and election rules, proposing significant changes to nearly the entire voting process and taking particular aim at local efforts to make voting easier. It was formally touched off by Abbott early this year when he named “election integrity” one of his emergency items for the legislative session despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.