Glenn Reynolds in the New York Post:
Americans will fight and die for democracy, but when it comes to the actual business
of elections, stuffed ballot boxes and cemetery voters are the subject
of jokes more than outrage — though a democracy in which elections are
decided by fraudulent votes created by corrupt politicians is no
democracy at all.
That contradiction is the subject of “Who’s Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote At Risk,” by journalist John Fund and former Justice Department attorney Hans von Spakovsky.
Many of America’s largest and worst-governed cities suffer from
entrenched and corrupt political machines that maintain their position
in no small part via voter fraud. Corrupt machines (like that of
Detroit’s disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick) siphon off money that
should go to essential services and instead divert it to political
fatcats and their supporters. Efforts at reform are often defeated with
fraudulent votes. As we approach a presidential election that may
prove to be as close as 2000’s, Fund and von Spakovsky’s book is a
wake-up call. If democracy in America is to survive, something must be
done. Will we do it?