The long decline in election fraud

Voter fraud and manipulation were widespread and barely hidden in the United States of a century ago. Think Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.

Now not so much. The conservative Heritage Foundation runs a database of “proven instances of voter fraud” from the present back to as far as 1948. They have found 1,384 instances in a period over which well over 3 billion votes were cast. Heritage doesn’t claim that their list is comprehensive, but still … that’s half of a thousandth of one percent.