It is always amusing when professors tell us something that the facts belie.  Here is the Huffington Post citing a bunch of academics to establish voter fraud isn’t very real.  These stories are always interesting becaue I’ve seen voter fraud with my own eyes, and as I wrote at Pajamas this week, proved it in federal court.

This article cites Lorraine C. Minnite , a professor at Barnard College.  I wonder if Barnard has classes on Tuesday?  Instead of being stuck in a classroom, it might be good if some of the academics ventured out and watched the elections next week. Better yet, have reporters ask the professors how many elections they’ve actually observed on the ground. 

UPDATE:  A ELC reader sends an email with this biographical information about the Professor.  A link has been added above for the full bio:

She has been called on by various labor, advocacy, and governmental organizations, as well as political campaigns, to consult on matters of public policy and demographic patterns in New York City.

She is co-author with Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke of a forthcoming book, Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, which will be published by The New Press in January
2009.