Pre-election Claims of “Voter Fraud” Fizzle Out

Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of “voter fraud” in swing states never came to pass.

The secretaries of state in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin, where claims of voter-registration fraud were rampant, report that all went well. Despite long lines and technical miscues, none of the GOP officials who earlier raised the bogeyman of voter fraud and claimed that voter registration groups like ACORN planned to steal the election appear to be questioning the integrity of the election outcome.