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One of the more clever country song titles I ever heard was If the Phone Don’t Ring, You’ll Know It’s Me.That’s something like the predicament of searchers after the menace of voter fraud, who can’t seem to find much of it. The New York Times today reports that “scant evidence” exists of a significant problem.Voter fraud is the idea that individuals might vote multiple times, in multiple jurisdictions, or despite not being qualified. This is distinct from election fraud, which is corruption of broader voting or vote-counting processes. While voter fraud (and/or voter error) certainly happens, it is apparently on...

Here's what counts in one of America's busiest election war rooms: It's not who wins today; rather, it's that there is a winner. Virtual dead heats in several key statehouse and congressional races across the country and the memory of recent election troubles put unparalleled pressure on an Omaha company whose machines are counting about half the ballots cast today in the United States. "The level of scrutiny is unprecedented," said Michael Limas, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Election Systems & Software, the largest U.S. provider of voting equipment. "Any little misstep or problem that an election...