Voting fraud is demonstrably a trivially small phenomenon
Because voter fraud is insignificant, there was nothing to crack down on. The actual purpose of these units is not election integrity but voter suppression.
They seek to deter people of color, young people and likely Democrats from voting by raising the specter of prosecution for imaginary violations of election law.
In
Florida, for example, many felons whose voting rights have been restored are
nonetheless afraid of exercising their constitutional rights because of threats
from these units.
Republicans aren’t disappointed by the laughably small number of prosecutions for voting misconduct because the very existence of these units tends to support the “big lie” and because attacking voting rights is now the leading strategy of the Republican Party. I appreciated this article for revealing the emptiness of this excuse.