The Heritage Foundation’s Jason Snead claims in his Jan. 9 op-ed (“Election fraud commission should have remained intact”) that the foundation’s database has 1,107 verified accounts of voter fraud, but he doesn’t tell us how many years his database covers.
I queried that database and found that it covers every year since 1984. There are two voting days (primary and election) in each of the 50 states each year in those 33 years. To have 1,107 verified accounts of voter fraud in 3,300 elections including millions and millions of voters is minuscule.
Snead also quotes the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s 2017 study that targeted 141 counties in Georgia with charges of fraud. Of those counties, only five had problems with keeping voter rolls up to date. PolitiFact reported that the foundation “used data selectively and ignored ongoing efforts to clean up the voter rolls to reach an exaggerated conclusion.”
Snead tells us that “liberal’ groups have worked to obstruct the Presidential Advisory Commission of Election Integrity’s efforts. There are 15 states with Democratic governors but 44 states refused to provide certain types of voter information to the commission. That means there must be at least 29 “liberal” Republican governors who are obstructionists.
Snead’s loose play with statistics and reliance on biased studies is par for the course for the Heritage Foundation. Citizens should always question data from “experts” — of any party — who are paid to shill their partisan story.
Ginny Gibble
Lancaster Township
