Voter Fraud Canary Not In Coalmine

TPM Muckraker is having some fun today going state by state and showing that not one Secretary of State or elections division has encountered any evidence whatsoever of voter fraud. Reports of voter suppression would be harder to come by because it's more difficult to figure out who didn't vote - in one precinct in Minnesota they ran out of voter registration materials (the state has same-day registration), and at another a Somali interpreter was telling people to vote for Norm Coleman, which may be extremely important in a close Senate race. But basically, the rumors of a "stolen election" through voter fraud were completely unfounded, again.

Of course, that's not the reason for the rumors. It's to suppress the vote, alienate people and delegitimize the election. Fortunately, with maybe 130 million turning out, that doesn't appear to have worked, either. The system nonetheless could use some reform.