Voter Fraud In Texas?

Click here for an article at Crooks & Liars by Steve M. entitled Next Time, Governor Abbott, Follow The Links.

Texas governor Greg Abbott tweeted the following: "Texas will continue to crack down on vote fraud.'

Texas, of course, is looking at ways to restrict the right to vote by making government photo ID mandatory -- a restriction that weighs most heavily on the old, the young (students), and non-whites and immigrants. The article cites some figures in rebuttal: In the previous 10 years, precisely two people had been prosecuted for in-person voter fraud.

[Justin] Levitt [a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles] ... found only three credible allegations of fraud in Texas elections since 2000 that could have been prevented by an ID rule. Minnite found four cases of this kind from 2000 until 2014.

Four cases of fraud for 72 million votes makes the chance of voter fraud 1 in 18 million.

According to the National Weather Service, the chances of being struck by lightning in Texas are 1 in 1.35 million.