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"As we&amp;apos;ve reported at Rolling Stone, over the past few years Republicans in more than a dozen states have been knocking themselves out passing laws that make it harder for people to vote. It hasn&amp;apos;t escaped notice that the voters most affected by these measures &amp;#x2013; from voter ID laws to restrictions on early voting &amp;#x2013; are Democrats. But no matter: Republicans deny they&amp;apos;re waging a partisan &amp;quot;war on voting&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; they say the new laws are needed to combat rampant voter fraud. That&amp;apos;s the line laid down most recently by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to justify purging his state&amp;apos;s voter rolls of alleged noncitizens. &amp;quot;We need to have fair elections,&amp;quot; he said last week. &amp;quot;When you go out to vote, you want to make sure that the other individuals that are voting have a right to vote.&amp;quot;\r\nBut here&amp;apos;s the thing: Not only is voter fraud not rampant &amp;#x2013; it&amp;apos;s virtually nonexistent. The iron-clad word on the subject comes from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, whose 2007 report, &amp;apos;The Truth About Voter Fraud,&amp;apos; sorts through thousands of allegations going back to the 1990s in the most in-depth voter fraud study ever undertaken. The bottom line, confirmed by all subsequent research: &amp;quot;Usually, only a tiny portion of the claimed illegality is substantiated &amp;#x2014;  and most of the remainder is either nothing more than speculation or  has been conclusively debunked.&amp;quot; In fact, &amp;quot;one is more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud.&amp;quot;\r\nWe&amp;apos;ve used the Brennan findings to put together this quick-and-dirty guide to voter fraud claims. Click through to find out about the most commonly cited voter fraud allegations &amp;#x2013; and why they almost never pan out.\r\nMore &amp;#x2022; Rolling Stone: The GOP War on Voting &amp;#x2022; Brennan Center for Justice: The Truth About Voter Fraud"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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